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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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