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Technology Stocks : Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PCSS who wrote (1643)	8/13/2002 11:09:30 AM
From: Night Writer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4345

Nice price move on great volume. Somebody likes HPQ a lot.

To: PCSS who wrote (1643)	8/13/2002 12:02:28 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 4345

Cool stuff from the inq: Tru64 -- the organ donor for HP/UX Sliced, diced and transplanted By Adamson Rust: Tuesday 13 August 2002, 11:38 DOCUMENTS SEEN BY the INQUIRER show the difference between HP/UX and Tru64, with the latter, of course, being an organ donor as parts of it will be grafted into the Hewlett Packard flavour of Unix. HPQ, as we've mentioned before, will wave goodbye to Tru64 and just use the bits of what used to be known as D/UX to bolster its own offering. What's the rationale for this? The documents we've seen show that HP is relying heavily on a Gartner assessement of HP/UX 11i. The Armani-clad analysts voted HP/UX 11i as the number Unix platform according to Gartner's evaluation model and for SAP, and it believes its virtual partitioning capability is "innovative" – a word which means new. Poor old Tru64, however, is number one in clustering, in file and storage management, in high availability and RAS and in higher performance computing. But it's for the chop and we understand the surgeons will rip out its guts while some people who formerly worked on Tru64 will lose their jobs come early October. Because there's Unix inside, HP likes to tell folk that they share a common core, and have functionally equivalent features for enterprises. The interfaces, of course, are different and specific to HP and Compaq-as-was. HP believes, according to this document from inhouse newspaper The Daily Burton, that Tru64 is better at single image clustering and multipathing storage, while HP/UX has better security functions, integrated resource and workload management and partitioning. The comprehensively researched document goes into vast detail about the technical specs and hardware support of each of the different Unix flavours. But at the end of the day does anyone really believe that the decision of the Surgeon General, the Carly-Capellas axis, is to do with technology? It's purely politics, it appears to us. So farewell Tru64, real soon now. We look forward to inspecting your entrails when the major surgery starts. 213.219.40.69