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Gotcha. HP-UX is probably dead for a variety of its own reasons, only one of which may be tied to the death of Itanium . If HP had wanted to create a port of HP-UX from Itanium to X64, then they would have done so by now. Here is Jeff Kyle, director of product management for enterprise servers at HPE, admitting there is nothing "new or shiny" about HP-UX. www.cio.com/.../intels-itanium-to-live-an-as-hpe-commits-to-new-servers-with-the-chip.html www.computerworld.com/.../hp-plans-to-continue-with-itanium-in-servers-for-hp-ux-customers.html This promise (of new Kittson-based HP server for HP-UX) is almost exactly the same story that was told in 2014, and again in 2015. I'm guessing it won't happen at all. Even if they do release the server, the contrarian in me thinks that it would make customers abandon the platform even faster, as that will mark the definite end of the roadmap which is provided by both Intel and HP.
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