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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise Is Said to Plan About 5k Job Cuts by planteen on Friday September 22, 2017 @10:51AM (#15312674)
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.

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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise Is Said to Plan About 5k Job Cuts by zero_one_one on Friday September 22, 2017 @10:56AM (#15312726)
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.
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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise Is Said to Plan About 5k Job Cuts by planteen on Friday September 22, 2017 @11:01AM (#15312772)
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.
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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise Is Said to Plan About 5k Job Cuts by zero_one_one on Friday September 22, 2017 @12:17PM (#15313482)
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.
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