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.

How many amazon.com stories about moving to Linux on HP will it take
before HP-UX sites begin to wonder what they are missing.

MPE has a very significant cost compared to HP-UX, so cost isn't
such a big factor in moving off of HP-UX.  The major savings potential,
after hardware, is the operating costs of running the system.  Linux
allows standardizing around an operating system without locking in a
hardware vendor.  This is a major advantage.  Of course, it's the
applications (and the databases?) that will dictate in the end.

I can't wait for the same thing to happen to databases.  The cost
factor comes back into play.

Richard


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