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Is this also the end of HPUX? Can it run on anything else? It's hard to find information on that.
by macdice 5y ago
Is this also the end of HPUX? Can it run on anything else? It's hard to find information on that.
- dsr_ 5y agoIt certainly used to run on other architectures -- notably PA-RISC and Motorola 680x0.
- spijdar 5y agoThey definitely "can" port it, but would they? I believe HP is internally using Linux for more and more things -- the question is if there are enough customers paying for HP-UX to make porting worth it, or if they are legally able to sell the rights to it as they did OpenVMS. Only HP knows the full answer.
- pferde 5y agoThere's still a lot of legacy HPUX servers out there, mostly running SAP+Oracle combo, but they all slowly get phased out in favour of Linux or Windows boxes. Still, some of them will likely remain chugging along for years to come, because their performance will simply be sufficient for the task at hand.
- jabl 5y agoI can well imagining HP milking existing HP-UX customers for all they're worth, but I'm finding it hard to justify spending much $$$ to develop it. So I would expect HPE to provide security patches and nothing more.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoYeah but those versions have long been unmaintained. All modern HPUX code and third party apps are itanium only. The last 10 years or so HP actually paid intel a lot to keep making and developing itanium because they're so dependent on it for hpux and their long term support contracts. If a port was realistic they would have done it