RE: Bye bye Itanium and HP-UX?
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:59:45 +0000
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I thought it was a strong sign years ago when we were looking to upgrade from 8i and found that HPUX was refurbing and reselling HPUX PARISC servers and had developed an emulator for PARISC to sit on the itanium servers. They really wanted us to buy itaniun, but we never got the impression it was a good idea. We'd run into a troublesome time getting 10g to install on Itanium (it worked after a lot of work). We finally migrated that database from 8i/hpux parisc to linux-x86 11g last week, phew!
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Tim Hall
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Cc: kevin.lidh_at_gmail.com; exriscer_at_gmail.com; Oracle Mailinglist
Subject: Re: Bye bye Itanium and HP-UX?
Having lived through the end-of-life of Oracle on Tru64, my suggestion would be, "Don't walk, run from Itanium".
If it pans out the same way as Alpha, patches will take ages to be released (if ever) and support won't have any kit to test your issues on. Despite Oracle's commitment to support existing customers, it will quickly become an usable platform for all but the most stable Oracle installations.
I waited 15 months for one patch to be released, then left the company. I'm not sure if the fix was ever released.
I kept getting emails from managers asking why security patches hadn't been applied. The problem was the patches were dependent on patchsets that were over 1 year late.
Call me skeptical, but I would start planning your hardware move as soon as possible.
Cheers
Tim...
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Thomas Roach <troach_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> It's very expensive to port to platforms. If they don't believe their will
> be a big market on a specific platform then it becomes a risky (expensive)
> investment with a lower chance of return on that investment.
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Kevin Lidh <kevin.lidh_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It'll be interesting to watch this play out.
>> http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/110323c.html?mtxs=rss-corp-news
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:08 PM, LS Cheng <exriscer_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/346696
>>>
>>> Will HP-UX run on x86?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> --
>>> LSC
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Thomas Roach
> 813-404-6066
> troach_at_gmail.com
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