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by gunz_rozez 5373 days ago
Its nice to see OpenStack getting picked up by HP, I think that is the bigger story here....wonder why they would choose Ubuntu over HPUX....It should not be that difficult to port HPUX onto OpenStack. Also would like to see if HP's play here would be get enterprises on this new "Cloud" they are building.
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bad_user 5373 days ago
Probably because HP-UX is a technical liability that they are keeping around just for the support contracts involved.

The hard reality is that while these operating systems (like HP-UX or Solaris) may still have some technical or commercial advantages, what really matters when you want to scale is the predictability and support for all kinds of cheap/expensive/old/new hardware and the availability of up-to-date software packages, and you really can't beat Linux there.

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patrickgzill 5373 days ago
The issue is familiarity. Sun ran into the same issue with Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris. More programmers and sysadmins are just more familiar with Linux.
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