HP Helps HP 9000 Legacy Environments Prepare for the Year 2000; Cost-effective Program Eases Transition for HP 9000 Users to Next Millennium.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 10, 1998-- Hewlett-Packard Company today announced a comprehensive upgrade program that enables customers with HP 9000 Enterprise Server legacy environments to prepare for the Year 2000. Part of that program, the HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. 9.04 upgrade, allows all HP 9000 Enterprise Server customers running the HP-UX(1) operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. Versions 9.04 and 9.0 to upgrade to Year 2000 compliant a. 1. (Computers) having dates fully and properly represented, and not susceptible to failure due to the year 2000 bug. versions of HP-UX. With this upgrade, users will gain new levels of system performance and functionality. This overall program, which builds upon HP's ongoing Year 2000 efforts, provides additional services, resources and expertise to enable customers to prepare effectively for the next millennium. "For many customers, planning and preparing for the Year 2000 is a daunting daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin task," said Jean Bozman, software analyst at International Data Corporation, a Framingham, Mass.-based market-research firm. "HP is providing a clear and detailed roadmap that will help customers who havedelayed their upgrade from HP-UX 9.X to reach Year 2000 compliance. This roadmap, together with migration toolkits, should speed the customers' upgrade to HP-UX 10.20, or to the most current release, HP-UX 11, both of which are certified See certification. to be Y2K compliant Capable of correctly processing any data that deals with a date beyond the year 1999. See Y2K problem. ." ABOUT THE PROGRAM In addition to the operating-environment software upgrade, the program comprises additional products, services and resources to assist customers with the transition and implementation. Customers transitioning their legacy environments to HP-UX 10.20 and 11 will receive a range of benefits in addition to Year 2000 compliance. HP-UX, Versions 10.20 and beyond, optimize optimize - optimisation the entire HP 9000 Enterprise Server line and enable business-critical applications such as high-end online transaction processing See transaction processing and OLCP. and decision-support to run significantly faster. "With this comprehensive upgrade program, HP is breaking down the barriers for Year 2000 compliance," said Janice Chaffin, general manager for HP's High Performance Systems Division. "HP continues to go the extra mile to help our customers make it through the date change successfully." To help customers take control of their own Year 2000 efforts, HP is offering courses on Year 2000 planning and methodology, as well as discounts on select HP-UX training courses. The courses will address implementation tactics across the enterprise and how to upgrade HP 9000 systems quickly and efficiently. The courses complement HP's existing system-support solutions, which offer customers a wide range of services, including software updates and information, phone-in assistance and account support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services . HP's Cure2000 Partners, a portfolio of Year 2000 tool and service providers with expertise in HP systems, also will help customers with planning, testing, hardware and software conversion, and overall implementation. Additional program benefits include limited-time-offer trade-in rebates for older HP 9000 Enterprise Server models; special, low-cost leasing terms; and software-license replication for test and development servers. All HP 9000 customers can take advantage of this program. Customers with support contracts now can upgrade easily to Year 2000-compliant versions of HP-UX and HP applications, and they will continue to have continuous access to the most current releases of all HP software products. Customers without support contracts can receive a free upgrade to HP-UX 10.20, as well as obtain compliant versions of selected HP software products free of charge. HP is the only leading UNIX system Noun 1. UNIX system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX operating system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services vendor to date to provide free Year 2000 upgrades of selected software to non-support customers. WORLDWIDE AVAILABILITY Customers currently using HP's software support services may obtain the Year 2000 upgrades immediately as a standard benefit of the service. Customers currently without support contracts may obtain the upgrade and selected HP software products beginning Sept. 1. Information on the HP-UX 9.04 upgrade program is available on the World Wide Web at www.hp.com/go/9000customer. Additional information on HP's Year 2000 program is available on the Web at www.hp.com/go/year2000/. ABOUT HP Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing computing - computer , Internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. It is the second largest computer supplier in the world, with computer-related revenue in excess of $35.4 billion in its 1997 fiscal year. HP has 125,300 employees and had revenue of $42.9 billion in its 1997 fiscal year. Information about HP, its products and system support services can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. (1) HP-UX Release 10.20 and later and HP-UX Release 11.00 and later (in both 32 and 64-bit configurations) on all HP 9000 computers are Open Group UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). 95 branded products. Note to Editors: UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group.
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