From PC World: Hewlett-Packard isn’t making bones about the fact that the Unix OS market is in decline, but the company believes its HP-UX has a long life ahead for customers using its fault-tolerant servers.
The company has a road map for HP-UX into 2022, which could possibly expand into 2025, said Randy Meyer, vice president and general manager of Mission Critical Systems at HP’s Enterprise Server Business.
“Clearly there are installed-base customers that want continuity of HP-UX,” Meyer said. “We’ve got a huge customer base we’ve got to [address].”
HP puts HP-UX on its mission-critical servers that run on Intel’s Itanium processors, whose future is under question as the Unix market declines. Itanium is being taken over by high-end servers running on Intel’s x86 chips, which run both Linux and Windows. Software development around Itanium has also slowed down and Intel has not shared product road maps beyond an upcoming Itanium processor code-named Kittson, which has suffered setbacks.
HP previously ran into trouble related to Unix-based operating systems relying on Itanium chips. Earlier this year, HP pumped new life into its OpenVMS OS by licensing it to an engineering firm VMS Software, which brought relief to customers who slammed an earlier HP decision to end support for it by 2020.
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