Ask A Question About Your HP-UX or OpenVMS System

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A reader can get further without a message. The decision helper on Our Offering asks a short run of questions about the system in front of you, in order, and prints the reasoning beside each of its three outcomes: keep it running, host it, or migrate it. The Explainers describe how emulation, re-hosting and porting each work, and the Glossary sets out the terms a vendor is likely to use with you.

The release, the hardware and the constraint, in that order

A message is enough when it carries the facts that decide the answer. Before writing, note these from the system itself rather than from memory:

the operating system and release, such as HP-UX 11i v3 with its patch level, or the OpenVMS version
the hardware family: Itanium Integrity, PA-RISC, or an x86-64 host or guest
the application that runs on it, and whether you still hold its source code and a build environment
the constraint that prompted the question: hardware age, a support date, a cost figure or a gap in staff
any database that crosses a byte-order boundary, such as an Oracle database moving from HP-UX on Integrity to Linux on x86-64

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The release comes first because it sets the support clock. The Register reported in January 2026 that standard support for HP-UX 11i v3 on HPE Integrity servers ended on 31 December 2025, so a release and patch level tells you which side of that date the system sits on before anything else is discussed.

Bare hands seating a network cable into the rear port of a server chassis — A generated illustration, not a photograph of any particular machine. It stands for the physical side of an estate: which chassis, which ports and which cables are still in use.

Write the answers as plain sentences and keep the outcome the decision helper gave you beside them. A question with the release, the hardware and the constraint in it can be answered. One that asks only about migration in general cannot be answered from a distance.