HP announces end of support of PA-RISC based servers in 2013

This post is for our customers running Cloverleaf on PA-RISC based servers and HP-UX. I am doing research to see what are your future plans for your CL environment due to HP no longer selling servers with PA-RISC chips (stopped selling them in 2008) and ending support in 2013.

Here are the details

Here is the link from HP regarding the end-of-life on their RISC system:

http://www.hp.com/products1/evolution/9000/eol_announcement.html

For replacement of RISC servers, HP offers two choices: Integrity servers (Itanium) and ProLiant servers (Intel x86/Xenon), which runs Windows and RH Linux and can be on blade system.

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/platforms/index.html

As for operating system 11i v2 and v3, here is their support plan:

http://www.hp.com/softwarereleases/releases-media2/history/slide2.html