That's a very good question.... The first day during the keynotes they
said multiple times that the 9000 was not going away. But you've got to
ask yourself how long until say linux starts eating into that revenue
stream. Can they afford to maintain and advance the core OS on the 9000,
when there is a large community that is working on the core of linux for
free? While linux doesn't support superdome class machines today, how
long until it does? How many of you could live with linux, netBSD, or
FreeBSD running on a dual processor intel/amd box with 2ghz+ processors?
I think a lot of us could. I just haven't figured out if it's worth the
political risk for us yet. My boss, who tends to be thrifty, would
probably lean the linux way given a choice.

-Lane

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So, is HP-UX meeting that criteria? If not, what then.....

-dtd

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