Re: Bye bye Itanium and HP-UX?

From: Thomas Roach <troach_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:40:41 -0400
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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
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>>
>

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