IBM countered that HP's Itanium Superdome results have used Windows, which has a much less mature collection of software, and that HP has yet to post a Superdome result with HP-UX and Itanium. This announcement from IBM is a great validation that...
Managing multiple operating systems is important for HP, because its Itanium servers can simultaneously run Windows, Linux and HP-UX, which means that the company doesn't have to design as many different types of computers.
HP is gradually phasing out the AlphaServer line, encouraging customers to move to HP's Integrity line of servers based on Intel's Itanium processor. In the first slip, HP has delayed by up to a year the time when HP's version of Unix, called HP-UX...
The two-phase roll-out will see the 20 existing Oracle database servers running on HP-UX that support the City's health and welfare applications replaced with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 running on HP Integrity Itanium 64 bit servers.
Most Itanium systems use HP's version of Unix (HP-UX) but they can also run Linux, Windows and HP's OpenVMS operating system. At this point, Itanium seems to have built a large enough ecosystem, at least in an HP-UX context, to support virtually...
Given HP's continued commitment to Itanium in its HP-UX, NonStop and OpenVMS business critical server platforms, the latter seems the more likely explanation. Is Intel and HP's Itanium processor fatally holed below the waterline, justifying its...