On the Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:32:02 +0200, Stefaan A Eeckels uttered forth
the following...

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> But *switching* all users to HP-UX seems rather ill-conceived (if not
> downright foolish).
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Firstly where did the OP mention anything about moving everyone (ie
desktop users) to HP/UX? I imagine they are running Oracle or Ingres in
a Windows Server environment and have decided to switch to HP/UX purely
for this environment. The Oracle front-end would intergrate seemlessly
under Windows without the need for Sambe. This is speculation of course
on my part but I'd imagine this is likely to be the case or similar.

The rest of your post just seems to go on about using other choices of
hardware & OS's. Are you a reseller on commission?

In response to the OP though, I'd say it won't take very long to pick up
HP/UX & the web references given already are more then enough to get you
going. Look closely at HP/UX LVM & also at Veritas VM as you may end up
using the latter. IMHO HP/UX is a great OS, is very stable & lends
itself very nicely to disaster recovery.

BTW I use Solaris & HP/UX and if given the choice I'd personally opt for
HP/UX as Solaris can become a bit of a patch jungle, as you are probably
already aware.