At 02:03 PM 11/15/2001 -0800, John Clogg wrote:
>Jim phillips asks:
> >...can HP-UX be far behind?
>
>Yes, I think it can.  HPUX (and other Unix flavors) have an installed base
>many times as large as MPE's ever was.  I don't think there will be
>wholesale migration to the flavor of the month for some time.  Don't forget,
>just a few years ago if you had believed the trade press you would have
>expected that every business application would have migrated to NT by now.
>The pundits are always looking for the next great thing, and are equally
>eager to announce the demise of last week's darling.

I beg to differ!
For the same business reasons that HP is dropping MPE, I believe they will
also soon drop HP-UX, get out of the OS business and put their support
behind Linuix.  Of course, the transition from HP-UX to Linux will be
easier but still quite disruptive.

BTW: Is 5 years notice and support an HP policy or an HP policy?  I doubt
that it is a Microsoft policy.



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