The alliance will face stiff competition from Windows NT, and rival Unix camps based around Sun's Solaris, HP-UX and Digital Unix, now owned by Compaq. Intel - which has co-developed IA-64 with Hewlett-Packard (HP) and so backs 64bit HP-UX - has...
Its presence in the market will be increased only when software starts to be widely available, he said, then Itanium will turn up in clusters with HP-UX and Linux. The production of Itanium 2 compatible software by BEA, Microsoft, Oracle and SAS...
Servers containing AIX, IBM's version of Unix, will probably pass sales of servers from Hewlett-Packard running HP-UX by late this year or early next year, Hewitt said. I don't think there will be any significant volume until Madison and Deerfield...
Solaris competes with other versions of Unix - including IBM's AIX and Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX - as well as with Linux on lower-end systems and with Microsoft's Windows. Other features include the SunScreen 3.2 firewall, to keep intruders out of a...
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. Windows and HP-UX versions are due by the end of the year, Sun has said.
HP has extended the deadline in its hunt to find the UK's oldest HP-UX installation. The owner of the oldest system will win an entry-class Integrity server, a licence for HP-UX 11i v3, installation and a three-year Support Plus 24 Care Pack from HP.