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HP-UX was one of the most popular operating systems to run on Itanium though?

• icedchai 1y ago
  HP was also one of the few companies to actually sell Itanium systems! They were also the last to stop selling them. They ported both OpenVMS and HP-UX to Itanium.
  • tyingq 1y ago
    Well, largely because they made it difficult for customers to stay on PA-RISC, then later, because their competitors were dying off...and if you were in the market for stodgy RISC/Unix there weren't many other choices.
    • icedchai 1y ago
      As for RISC/Unix, in the enterprise, IBM's POWER/AIX is still around. I know some die hard IBM shops still using it. I guess Oracle / Sun sparc is also still hanging on. I haven't seen a Sun shop since the early 2000's...
      • kjs3 1y ago
        There's still a lot of AIX around and the LoB is seeing revenue growth. You just don't hear about it on HN because it's mostly doing mundane, mission critical stuff buried in large orgs. I still run into a number of Solaris/SPARC shops, but even the most die hard of them are actively looking for the off-ramp. The writing is on that wall.
        • icedchai 1y ago
          I believe it! For a few years, I worked on fairly large system deployed to an AIX environment. The hardware and software were both rock solid. While I haven't used it, the performance of the newer POWER stuff looks incredible.
  • sillywalk 1y ago
    HP also ported NonStop to Itanium.
• p_l 1y ago
  Oracle sales would push you towards HP-UX on Itanium as recommended platform. To the point that once that ended with Oracle's purchase of Sun, there was a lawsuit between Oracle and HP. And a lot of angry customers as HP-UX was pushed to the last moment of acquisition announcement.
• bluedino 1y ago
  That's what we ran. Core system was written on PICK Basic in the 80's and it just kept going on and on. I was buying HP Integrity (Itanium line) spare parts on eBay up until about 10 years ago.