On 8 Jul 2003 03:55:41 -0700, [log in to unmask] (Roshan Shah) wrote:

>a) HP says it is committed to HP-UX(HP9000) on the long haul ?
>   Do they have a number i.e for next N Number of years!

Not that I've seen. Have any vendors of a major O/S published a number
for their operating system? What number would you feel comfortable
with? If HP published a number, would you believe it?

>b) Can they come forward and declare that if they they will make HP-UX
>open source if at all they decide to dump that too ?

I haven't seem them do this either. I wouldn't expect them to make
such a statement until they had decided that they were abandoning
HP-UX, and since that hasn't happened yet, neither has any open source
announcement.

I know that MPE folks are leery about HP's plans for ANY of their
operating systems. Having lived on both sides of the street (that
would be MPE and HP-UX, folks) I feel, as do the majority of HP-UX
users, that HP's reasons for killing MPE just do not apply to HP-UX.
They are completely different markets. HP-UX makes too much money for
HP. There probably orders of magnitude more HP-UX (and now Tru64)
systems out there than there ever were e3000s. It's a huge market and
HP continues to invest in development and acquisitions to grow their
market share. In some areas, they are the #1 player in the market, an
odd position to be in if you are contemplating getting out of that
market.

>Should one be suggesting to the client to use Linux ( Open Source ) or
>Microsoft Platforms(Licencing Fees and too frequent update is a
>headache! )... at least there are so many developers/ISV's out there
>for these!

One should suggest whatever meets the client's requirements in terms
of application availability, security, performance, reliability, cost
to purchase AND operate, etc.  There is no "one size fits all" answer,
and anybody who says different likely works at Microsoft. Each
possible answer has strengths and weaknesses. It is your job, as a
consultant, to know what those are, and to and evaluate them relative
to your client's needs.

Should you suggest Linux? Yes, in some cases. Should you suggest
Windows? Although I must fight my gag reflex, yes, you should in some
cases.

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