> It may not be as bad as it sounds. Just like the IA64 has ended up being "finished" by a lot of Alpha Engineers (they got the last 150 from HP about a month ago), it appears that next major version of HP/UX is going to end up being a lot more "Tru64" than HP/UX. HP has made commitments to retain the distinguishing features of Digital Unix, e.g. clustering and AdvFS, and they don't plan on offering two parallel versions, one with and the other without. It will be easier to include the "look and feel" of HP/UX into Tru64 - and call it HP/UX - than to make HP/UX do *real* clustering.
HP has committed to adding the features to HP/UX, but they have found that
easier said than done. I know that making Tru64 look like HP/UX is easier
than adding TruClusters and AdvFS to HP/UX, but that's still a lot of work
because Tru64 and HP/UX are so different in how they are configured (in
terms on where program, utilities, and configuration files are located).
[please split your lines, BTW]
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Eric Dittman
dittman_at_dittman.net
Received on Fri Sep 05 2003 - 07:43:00 BST