My good friend Joe Dolliver's prediction of the demise of HP-UX maybe a bit
premature. There are a number of reason's why any comparison between HP-UX
and MPE are not exact. First of all the HP-UX market is much larger than the
MPE market. Secondly HP cannot "pull the plug" on UNIX because they don't
own UNIX. As long a SUN is making boxes that run Solaris, IBM is making
boxes that run  AIX  et cetra HP will have to make boxes that run HP-UX.
They don't dare give away the market share.

It is no trade secret that HP-UX is undergoing some major revisions now that
HPQ owns Tru-64. HPQ has put way too much time, effort and capital  into
bringing the combined HP-Tru-UX-64  O/S to fruition to kill it off in the
next 3 years. Considering that the expected life cycle of  servers, O/S and
applications in a non-MPE world are shorter than they were in the MPE world,
I would predict that you have number of generations left before HP-Tru-UX-64
is EOL.

My prediction, keeping in mind that I use tea bags not loose tea, is that
all flavors of UNIX will start to incorporate the features that have made
Linux so popular. (This is a very safe prediction since it is predicting the
present.) The prediction Joe really wants to hear is: Save your SLTs boys,
the 3000 will rise again. I'm afraid that is not in the cards.
Let Peace be the maxim by which we act because we will Peace to become a
universal law.
Work For Peace
The opinions expressed herein are my own and not necessarily those of my
employer.
Yosef Rosenblatt

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