HP-UX x86 insights?

[MG]

Does anyone know about the current state of those plans, as earlier
announced by HP? The HP website is hard to navigate as it is, so
I decided to ask here (also as an attempt to liven this place up a
bit).

Something with a lot of potential would be VxVM and VxFS/OnlineJFS,
needless to say. Maybe it would be an idea if HP could acquire this
from Symantec? (Ever since Veritas got acquired.)

Maybe I haven't paid attention, but it seems like HP-UX has been
the biggest user of his (albeit in its OEM'ed form).

- MG

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <5175537e$0$6344$e4fe...@dreader35.news.xs4all.nl>, MG

<marc...@SPAMxs4all.nl> writes:
> Does anyone know about the current state of those plans, as earlier
> announced by HP?

Unless HP have changed their mind in the past few months,
I'm not aware such plans exist.
Quite the contrary, they have repeatedly stated that HP-UX
will stay on Itanic, and x86 will run Linux and Windoof.

> The HP website is hard to navigate as it is, so
> I decided to ask here (also as an attempt to liven this place up a
> bit).

The HP website sucks, just like most big IT companies' sites.

> Something with a lot of potential would be VxVM and VxFS/OnlineJFS,
> needless to say.

VxFS is already part of HP-UX, since the mid 1990s.
OnlineJFS needs a license, iirc, so you're out of the game
as a hobbyist.

[MG]

On 22-apr-2013 17:23, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> Unless HP have changed their mind in the past few months,
> I'm not aware such plans exist.

Sources like The Register indeed deny (or denied) that HP had any plans
to, but I read on the HP site that they did have plans (supposedly).

So, it remains much of a mystery still.

> Quite the contrary, they have repeatedly stated that HP-UX
> will stay on Itanic, and x86 will run Linux and Windoof.

I think that was also fueled by the on-going 'dispute' with Oracle at
the time.

> VxFS is already part of HP-UX, since the mid 1990s.

Yes, I'm aware.

> OnlineJFS needs a license, iirc, so you're out of the game
> as a hobbyist.

Well, I've had the privilege of using it once and could tell it's
very interesting and not to mention able, to say the least.

Like I said, HP should consider acquiring it from Symantec and
perhaps adding it to the "base" OE upwards. I mean, it would
be able to compete with ZFS and the like nicely.

Without things like it... well, what point is there to port
HP-UX at all? (If you asked me.) It's certainly one of the
more interesting things, that left a very good impression with
me.

- MG