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by protomyth 5945 days ago
Well, running HP/UX seems to be a big advantage (read: converting costs money/time and messes up the monitoring infrastructure).
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Fair enough :)
Sorry, I think that probably came off as more snippy than I would have liked. The legacy thing is pretty important. It is the only real upgrade path for HP/UX (or for that matter OpenVMS). So, most of the decision is based on conversion and upgrade paths. It has turned into a big iron processor like SPARC and POWER. You can certainly put a lot of them in a machine and people spent money building the systems, but I am not sure what a salesman would tell me the advantage is.
Cheers, thanks for the clarification.