The operating system, which runs on HP's PA-RISC and Intel Itanium processors, will run native Linux applications on 64-bit Itanium servers without recompiling, when they become available. We expect broad Unix [HP-UX and Compaq's Tru64] integration...
The HP-UX 11i version 1.6 moves HP away from the proprietary PA-RISC processors for its servers and closer to Intel's Itanium 2, currently codenamed McKinley. Ram Appalaraju, director of marketing for HP-UX, said the latest release brought the HP...
Those looking to Hewlett-Packard's announcement of the first version of the HP-UX operating system for Itanium 2 should also be aware that not all HP-UX capabilities found on the PA-RISC chip are yet fully supported, said Richardson.
If you can take an HP-UX application running on PA-RISC today, plug in an Itanium server, and nothing changes about how they manage it, that's a powerful story," Miller said. Migration costs are a big concern for HP as it tries to steer Unix...
DEC is gone, HP-UX is going away, PA-RISC is gone," he said, referring to Digital Equipment Corp. Sun also is spreading its Java Enterprise System software to Windows, IBM's AIX version of Unix, and Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX version of Unix.
The HP-UX version of JES is only for servers using HP's PA-RISC processor, which over a period of years is being replaced by Intel's Itanium. Sun will sell its JES software for HP's version of Unix, called HP-UX, and for Microsoft Windows in the...