The new infrastructure belies previous comments about Sun ONE being too closely tied to Solaris because it highlights iPlanet's support for AIX, HP-UX, Linux and Windows as well as the Solaris operating system.
The SN5420 was launched with support for Solaris, Windows (NT and 2000) and Linux servers and has now extended the coverage to include IBM's AIX and HP-UX. The Cisco SN5420 Storage Router implements the iSCSI protocol to extend access of Fibre...
Hewlett-Packard is expected to reveal its second Itanium version of HP-UX operating system later this evening but won't start shipping until July. The HP-UX 11i version 1.6 moves HP away from the proprietary PA-RISC processors for its servers and...
The pact with Sun follows a similar bundling arrangement with Hewlett-Packard that BEA announced in September, in which the two companies coupled the WebLogic Java server with the HP-UX 11i Unix operating system.
EFI also has its own networking, so it can be used for remote diagnostics. Such additions can include much more detailed and useful diagnostics, self-configuration programs, and ways to sort out problems even if the operating system has died.
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.