HP started then spiked HP-UX on x86 project

Juicy Itanium trial document firehose opened As part of the ongoing lawsuit about whether or not Oracle had committed itself to supporting its software on Hewlett-Packard's Itanium-based servers, the software giant did a core dump of very interesting documents that show what many of us suspected: that HP did indeed mull acquiring the Sparc/Solaris business and that HP did in fact have a skunkworks that was porting the HP-UX variant of Unix to the x86 processor from Itanium.…...

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Published By: The Register - Wednesday, 23 May, 2012

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