On 8 May 2013 21:36, Simon Lyall <si...@darkmere.gen.nz> wrote: > The feeling I get where I am is that HP-UX and AIX are very much legacy > Operating Systems, a few large installations at big companies running big > applications but these are slowing being reduced and few new deployments.
I've been unfortunate enough to work with HP-UX lately. The HP field guys, the ones that do Itanium stuff, tell me that almost all of their remaining customers are telcos. $emp is in telco-land, though a software company and not an actual telco. Our customers want our software on HP-UX and on the odd occasion Solaris, but both of those are very much diminishing. One of our larger customers (a cellular operator with ~100 million subscribers) told us recently that they wanted our stuff to run on Linux. I expect cost was that customer's primary motivator. HP-UX is obscenely expensive considering what you get (and don't get), even before you buy any hardware. It's even worse if you tick whatever box it is that gives you the ServiceGuard feature set. And on the original topic... Seriously, are you folks arguing against installing 'telnet' (or 'nc') serious? Really? If you avoided 'nc' because of some fantasy of insecurity, did you leave Perl installed? Or Java? John
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