Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 8th Jul 2003 18:00 UTC
Today we host an interview with Christophe de Dinechin, Software Architect in HP-UX (Software business unit, Infrastructure Solutions). Most of you already know HP-UX, the leading "traditional" UNIX today feature-wise (second only to Solaris in Unix market-share, mostly competing with AIX). With Christophe we discuss HP-UX's competition, the other... 5 OSes HP supports with its various products, the Itanium platform and more.
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>DEC's Unix transition was handled very badly. As a result,
>Digital Unix slipped into the middle tier of Unix vendors
>and never fought its way back to the top.
We write software for the Alpha/Tru64 and its been fairly painless - we've even managed to help Compaq/HP sell decent spec servers (multiprocessor ES40/ES45's and better) on the basis of how well our compute codes run on it. For our sector (molecular modelling, informatics) raw power is paramount and this platform certainly delivers.
While the Itanium is good (Itanium 2 is even better) at this early stage its still only a fraction of the Alphas speed. Intels bug-ridden compilers don't help much either . . .
At a rough guess I'd say HP-UX was placed just behind Tru64 and Irix in the mid-tier Unix world (behind Solaris and AIX) in terms of sales.
Lets face it - no one ever sang the praises of HP-UX and PA-RISC - theres either a massive marketing problem or the arch just isn't very good.
Still the Alpha & Tru64 are now heading to the great processor / os graveyard in the sky . . .