As far as I remember plan is produce Multi OS compatible HW....i.e. IA
Platform so HP can have one line for Linux/HPUX and possibly other POSIX
variants. Oh I forgot the Windoze 2003 as well on this list.

my2cents
"Stan Brown" <stanb@panix.com> wrote in message
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> I swa an anouncemnet today that HP is droping Itaninium based worksations.
> Last time I cheked I though PA-RISC was to be replaced by Itanium.
>
> Is this end of lif ro HP-UX in a workstation context?
>
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