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Customers Rest Assured: HP & Intel are Committed to Long Future for Itanium

cjdreher| March 23, 2011 - last edited April 14, 2011
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HP, along with key partner Intel, is committed to at least 10 years of development and innovation on its HP-UX operating system and Itanium-based Integrity servers.  Customers, including those running Oracle’s current software portfolio can confidently deploy HP-UX systems through the next decade.

 

Just last month at the ISSCC conference in San Francisco, Intel unveiled technical details about the next Itanium processor, code named Poulson, with a long and vital roadmap extending beyond the next 10 years to the Kittson processor.   Looking out for strong investment protection for our customers, Poulson is socket compatible with the current “Tukwila” Itanium 9300 series processors providing an easy way forward for customers. 

 

Customers first.  That is the HP way.

 

What about Oracle?  In a statement yesterday, Oracle tried to say that Itanium is nearing end of life.  Clearly that is not the case and not how we see it at HP, nor is it what Intel has publicly stated (see Intel’s statement:  Intel Reaffirms Commitment to Itanium).  

 

Some customers are upset with Oracle's bully tactics and forced migrations, and are questioning their investments with Oracle HW and SW to protect against vendor lock-in. HP offers the broadest range of best-of-breed choices supporting traditional and next generation Big Data Analytics databases.  And we have a strong converged infrastructure strategy helping protect our customers investments now and in the future.  So Oracle customers, are you feeling pressured to limit your freedom of choice and lock in to an all Oracle stack?

 

 Customers: Speak up – we are listening

  • Are your enterprises at risk while costing hundreds of millions of dollars in lost productivity while Oracle limits fair competition?
  • Is disinformation from Oracle an attempt to force you into purchasing Sun servers in a desperate move to slow their declining UNIX market share?

 

Join the conversation – follow us on twitter @HPIntegrity,@HP_UX,  twitter feeds #customersfirst #HPCI #Itanium, or join in and leave a comment on our blogs.

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An OpenVMS User(anon) | ‎03-24-2011 12:09 PM
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Is there a statement from Leo Apotheker (or even someone close to his level) that backs up this blog entry created by a person I never heard of before? The author mentions "committed to at least 10 years of development and innovation on its HP-UX operating system and Itanium-based Integrity servers." What is the commitment to OpenVMS?

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cjdreher | ‎03-24-2011 01:55 PM
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Thank you for your comment.  I invite you to have a look at this page "HP Supports Customers Despite Oracle's Anti-Customer actions" which includes a statement from Mr. Dave Donatelli, executive vice president and general manager, Enterprise Servers Storage and Networking.  The page also includes the facts about the health of market share of HP and Oracle in this space as well as a twitter feed of ongoing  reaction.  HP has public roadmaps available on our product websites for:

 HP-UX : http://h20338.www2.hp.com/hpux11i/downloads/HPUX%20Public%20Roadmap.pdf

 OpenVMS: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/new/openvms_software_roadmap_feb2011.pdf

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Paul Guten(anon) | ‎03-25-2011 03:24 AM
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This move by Oracle seems very anti-partner and anti-business in my mind.  What about all the mutual customers and partnerships that Oracle and HP have established together.  Seems very short sighted.

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cjdreher | ‎03-25-2011 03:03 PM
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We agree and also question if Oracle is putting the customer first Paul.  I noticed I didn't put the link in for our response portal above so here is it is: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/solutions/customers_first.html

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Itanium Customer(anon) | ‎03-26-2011 12:18 AM
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What is beyond 2014/Kittson?

 

Are Intel simply going to release Kittson in 2014, only 3 years away. Then stop major Itanium releases (new features), while just providing Ghz+Cache increases and die shrinks? Perhaps while encouraging customers to x86?

 

HP + Intel need to provide beyond 2014 processor details and roadmap.

 

Is there going to be a Itanium 128 bit (IA128)?

 

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Rob(anon) | ‎04-01-2011 12:20 PM
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This announcement by Oracle is disappointing.  However, we were already planning for the inevitable migration of 95% of all HP-UX systems to Linux.  All this Oracle announcement means to us is that our HP-UX -> Linux migration will be expedited.  Regardless of what HP and Intel state regarding the future of Itanium, we see no benefit of staying on the Itanium platform when most of our apps and all of our databases can run on the Intel x86 platform on Linux, which clearly has a long and successful future ahead.

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cjdreher | ‎04-01-2011 06:02 PM
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Thank you for taking the time to comment Rob.  

I certainly understand your concerns about Oracle’s announcement and that you need to do what is best to support your unique business requirements.  Something you may want to consider ... HP recently sponsored a research project with Forrester based on 15 in-depth customer interviews that highlights why customers are continuing to invest in UNIX (both HP-UX and other flavors) over alternative platforms, including Linux.   The white-paper can be found at: http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA3-3055ENW.pdf.   The customers interviewed continue to deploy UNIX for the pronounced advantages it delivers in the areas of reliability, scalability, security and disaster recovery.   From a TCO perspective, the customers interviewed believe that their UNIX systems are less expensive to manage given the size of their workloads.  At HP, HP-UX can be purchased at a price-point that is in the same ball-park price wise as a Linux alternative.  Bottom line is we do believe that both HP-UX and Linux will have a place in the data center of the future. 

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Zoran Popovic(anon) | ‎04-08-2011 01:55 PM
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I have opened message to Oracle and SAP support about this situation - shortly, Oracle advised us we should consider talking to our local Oracle account team, while SAP stated that this is actually a consulting issue and not a support issue. I suppose what king of answer we can get from HP. If we do not plan to upgrade our SAP systems up to 2018 we can rely on SAP's and Oracle's extended support, and that's it - normally, major SAP Netweaver release upgrades on the customer side should be planned at least every 3-5 years max. And my company, as an HP customer, has to decide if we should invest now in Itanium hardware which might become a seriously ill business bottleneck in next 3-5 years. Not a good situation at all, and I suppose that every SAP customer on Itanium feels the same (I do believe it is not an insignificant community). Regards,

ZP.

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