Herb Statham wrote:
> Is HP preparing to abandon HP-UX? Read the statement closely ..."and
its 
> version of the Unix operating system".

As much as people want to assign some kind of subversive motive to HP's
decision to kill the HP 3000, it was a business decision.  HP was faced
with a big, expensive project to port MPE to IA-64, and they reached the
conclusion that HP 3000 sales had declined to the point that the port
was not worth the investment.  HP-UX sales are sufficient to make the
port; in fact it's already been done.  HP will continue to sell HP-UX
systems as long as they believe they can make money by doing so, and
will stop when that is no longer the case.

We can certainly argue with HP's handling of the e3000 product line, and
the misleading (if not downright dishonest) statements about their
future plans for MPE, but to believe that they are secretly planning to
prematurely kill HP-UX just doesn't make sense.  Most of us saw the
handwriting on the wall for MPE years before the EOL announcement, but
had become complacent because we believed HP's hype.  We won't make that
mistake again.  When HP-UX does come to an end, I don't think it will be
a surprise.

John Clogg

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