The President of HPQ, Capellas was quoted as having said. "You are going to
see Windows and Linux absolutely eviscerate the midrange proprietary Unix,"
Yet the article below says.
> As the world's largest technology company and UNIX vendor, HP would be
> foolish to abandon this strategic and profitable area of our
> business. Rest
> assured that our merger with Compaq will only strengthen our position and
> commitment to UNIX.
So, I give up. Does anyone understand what their strategy is?
Charles Finley
Transformix Computer Corporation
760-439-3146
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Jim Phillips
> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 7:11 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: HP's UNIX Message
>
>
> I thought you-all might be interested in this.
>
> Jim Phillips Information Systems Manager
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>
> I WANT MY MPE!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "HP Partner News" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "HP Partner News" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 8:48 PM
> Subject: a message to hp channel partners: hp's commitment to
> hp-ux and unix
> computing
>
>
> May 7, 2002
>
> Topic: HP's Commitment to HP-UX and UNIX Computing
>
> To: HP Channel Partners
>
> From: Mark Hudson, Director of Worldwide Marketing
> HP Business Systems and Technology Organization
>
>
> HP-UX Statement
>
> Make no mistake about it, UNIX is - and will continue to be - a vibrant,
> strategic platform for Hewlett-Packard Company. With the
> completion of our
> merger with Compaq, the new HP is now the largest UNIX vendor in
> the world.
> In contrast to some vendors who lose money on their UNIX
> business, HP's UNIX
> business has always been a significant contributor to HP's bottom
> line - in
> terms of both revenue and profit - and we will continue to drive and grow
> HP's UNIX server business in order to satisfy our customers' most
> demanding
> business requirements.
>
> HP has over 1.6 million UNIX licenses worldwide. Our fiercely loyal
> customers deploy HP-UX in a wide variety of environments, ranging from the
> desktop to the data center to the most demanding mission-critical
> roles. In
> fact, HP today leads the market with over 60,000 mission-critical UNIX
> installations across the globe. A key factor behind HP's success in the
> UNIX server marketplace is HP's broad range of strategic alliances and
> relationships with the ISV community. There are more than 16,000
> applications available today on HP-UX.
>
> HP strongly believes in supporting a multi-OS strategy to best meet the
> needs of its customers, and providing an enterprise UNIX
> operating system is
> a crucial component of this strategy. We look forward to bringing some of
> Tru64's key features and functionality into HP-UX, allowing HP to continue
> to lead the UNIX market in key areas such as performance and scalability,
> mission critical availability, end-to-end manageability and OS security.
>
> HP's continued commitment to the HP-UX operating system is demonstrated
> through its ongoing investment in R&D, which accounts for a significant
> portion of HP's overall R&D spending. HP has thousands of R&D engineers
> around the world who are furthering the innovation of HP-UX in
> the areas of
> high performance and scalability, always-on availability, partitioning and
> manageability, security, and seamless interoperability with Windows and
> Linux operating systems. HP continues to invest in HP-UX, with major
> initiatives around Operating Environments, Utility Computing and
> Per-Processor licensing.
>
> Looking ahead, HP is committed to providing UNIX server solutions based on
> the PA-RISC and Itanium Processor Family architectures. The strategy
> includes bringing platforms to market that are based on PA-RISC today and
> are easily upgradeable to future PA-RISC and Itanium processors, while
> maintaining complete binary compatibility with the 64-bit HP-UX operating
> system.
>
> As the world's largest technology company and UNIX vendor, HP would be
> foolish to abandon this strategic and profitable area of our
> business. Rest
> assured that our merger with Compaq will only strengthen our position and
> commitment to UNIX.
>
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