The push to save Itanium

Posted Nov 10, 2023 12:57 UTC (Fri) by Phantom_Hoover (subscriber, #167627)
In reply to: The push to save Itanium by NYKevin
Parent article: The push to save Itanium

They’d probably just tell you to use HP-UX once linux stops being viable. I would guess they can afford to keep it on life support to satisfy contractual obligations.

For me it only adds to the comedy: this guy had to set up an LLC (they obviously only sold Itanium servers B2B) to buy this amazing knock-down deal on a $6600 server, and didn’t feel the need to investigate what he was buying because hey, it says right there in the brochure, 10 years of support! What could possibly go wrong?

HP support for Itanium

Posted Nov 10, 2023 13:44 UTC (Fri) by joib (subscriber, #8541) [Link]

> They’d probably just tell you to use HP-UX once linux stops being viable.

I don't think HP officially supports Linux on Itanium since a long time. So if you want official HP support for a HP Itanium machine, it's HP-UX (since VMS was spun off into a separate company).

As an aside, AFAICT the "roadmap" for HP-UX is essentially "do the minimum necessary security updates while we fleece the customers until they migrate to Linux or Windows on x86"; there's no plan to port HP-UX to any architecture which is still being developed.