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In 2014, HP said that future Superdome Machines would have X86064 chips. The Itanic processors are dead men walking. -- regards, gus (gus@progress.com) "If I set here and stare at nothing long enough, people might think I'm an engineer working on something." -- S.R. McElroy > On Feb 28, 2016, at 4:29 PM, dbeavon wrote: > > Update from Progress Community [https://community.progress.com/] > > dbeavon [https://community.progress.com/members/dbeavon] > > Are there any out there who use the HP-UX Itanium for their OpenEdge platform? > > It is still listed in the "platform and product availability" guide, but I have some misgivings about its long-term prospects. For one, I don't think either Intel or even HP are very keen on HP-UX/IA64 anymore. Supposedly there is a plan for an Itanium chip called "Kittson". It has been rumored for several years... but it doesn't appear that it will ever be made (and even if it does, who would buy it except to put it in a museum with a big sign over it that says "the last Itanium chip ever")? > > I have a feeling that HP is just keeping this platform on life-support and allowing everyone to think there is a few years of life left in it (probably for the ongoing revenue), even though it is already very much at a dead-end. > > If you read the formal HP-UX roadmap, it is pretty dreary. I think they want to be out by 2020. I think Oracle wanted out a long time ago. I'm not sure if Progress wants to be out yet or not. It wouldn't surprise me if they did. And speaking from a developer's perspective, I am definitely eager to get my OE stuff out of there. I'd like it on some brand new x64 chips, using Windows with SSD for the database. I'd bet everything would run a *lot* faster than what we have going on right now with HP-UX/IA64. I don't see any exciting prospects for this platform. (Nor have I for the past five years.) Please let me know if I'm overlooking something. > > If anyone else is on HP-UX, do you have plans to change? Or will you stay as long as HP supports it? > > (Incidentally, whenever I call Progress tech support on HP-UX-specific problems, my impression is that they need a day or two to find one in the warehouse and blow the dust off of it. This isn't meant to diminish Progress tech support at all - they fully support the platform, and have always done a good job of it. But it seems that the reproducibles are always tested initially on Windows and Linux, until such time as an HP-UX can be found.) > > View online [https://community.progress.com/community_groups/openedge_general/f/26/t/23375] > > You received this notification because you subscribed to the forum. To stop receiving updates from only this thread, go here [https://community.progress.com/community_groups/openedge_general/f/26/t/23375/mute]. > > Flag [https://community.progress.com/community_groups/openedge_general/f/26/t/23375?AbuseContentId=e78bcc0c-5eff-4a6f-b3a0-c7c8e8421a5e&AbuseContentTypeId=46448885-d0e6-4133-bbfb-f0cd7b0fd6f7&AbuseFlag=true] this post as spam/abuse.
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