[Info-vax] HPE Integrity emulator

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/29/2024 12:49 PM, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <urq94k$m8rf$1 at dont-email.me>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
> wrote:
>> On 2/29/2024 3:06 AM, John Dallman wrote:
>>> HP-UX isn't all that different from Linux, and I seriously doubt
>>> there would be enough businesses that want to stay with HP-UX
>>> badly enough.
>> People liking HP-UX and liking Itanium may be a very small group.
> 
> "Liking" doesn't mean so much when lots of money is involved. A decade
> ago, a fair few people may have expressed loyalty to HP-UX/Itanium, but
> it was obvious then that it wasn't going to grow, and the writing has
> been on the wall for Itanium since 2019.

I think the writing has been on the wall for Itanium since
the late 00's.

> Moving almost any kind of HP-UX software to Linux is much easier than
> moving VMS software that uses VMS hard to anything else.

Yes. Oracle DB, other RDBMS (Sybase, Informix), Apache httpd,
various Java EE servers (WAS, WL, JBoss, Tomcat etc.), custom
Java SE applications, custom C++ applications etc. all run
just as well on Linux as on HP-UX. So the companies have
the choice.

Arne