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Could we be possibly be looking at HP taking HP/UX the same way that Oracle took Solaris? i.e. tossing it overboard?

That's likely (although not immediate). This year's Itanium 9700 is the last of the Itanium line and according to the roadmap here:

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/05/23/last-itanium-long-la...

They plan to containerize HP/UX and run on x64 Linux, that sounds to me like it's just a plan for a run out to EOL.

It's a real shame that the last line of System V Unixes/ Unices / Unii is starting to die off. Market share aside, it's sad that the history of UNIX(r) appears to be coming to a close...

A very undignified end to a wonderful OS (BSDs aside!)

The BSDs are not an aside. You'll also find macOS hanging out in the FreeBSD family tree.

The days of paying vendors massive sums of money for an operating system are over.

To clarify - I agree the BSDs are keeping Unix alive, however separating BSD from those Unixes with System V roots which are starting to wither and die is the point I was making - hence the (BSDs aside) addendum.

God I hope so. The last time I touched HP/UX was 2001. I still have nightmares. It's a wretched UNIX. It was running veritas, another wonderful pos software.

Nothing like long-term legacy support contracts for a bit of cash injection...

Agreed. HP/UX was terrible.

Oracle is killing Solaris. At least HP has a recent precedent with licensing the rights to another OS (VMS) to a separate company to let its life continue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS

And I doubt that HP/UX was 5,000 people within HP.

My concern would be that as they look to carve off the less profitable areas of their enterprise divisions, that the HP/UX team (as a smaller subset of the overall quoted number of 5000) and in turn the HP/UX product as it stands at the moment, could potentially be marked to suffer the same projected fate as Solaris.

Yeah... I mean how bright of a future does HP/UX have as long as it is tied to Itanium? It seems like a x86-64 port is necessary for future life.

Agreed... although x86 port for Solaris from SPARC wasn't enough to keep Solaris alive and kicking, despite the huge advancements Sun had made with the kernel and filesystem etc.

I remember the heyday of Unix, but I haven't seen a single Unix system in about 10 years.

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