Success Stories: what the public record can and cannot show

This page is for published accounts of people who kept, hosted or moved an HP-UX or OpenVMS system. We list an account only when a reader can open it, so the list is empty for now.

No published rating to quote yet

We have no published rating or review count to report for any provider on this page. The dated facts we hold cover platform support, hardware supply and the routes off Itanium. None of them is an account from someone who worked through a move, and we do not present them as one. The decision itself is set out on Our Offering.

An account is worth quoting only when a reader can find it, check its date and see what it leaves out, so we print none until it passes all three tests.

The Scope Record

The same three questions keep returning

Discussion of these systems keeps coming back to three things: how long the release stays supported, whether the source code and the people who understand it still exist, and where the hardware will run.

An empty open-plan office with white desks, blue chairs and a window — Stock photograph by Max Vakhtbovych on Pexels. It shows a working setting for a review, not a system, a site or any account.

Whether an application can be rebuilt at all is the hinge. The 2022 article "OpenVMS 9.2 for x86-64 is now available: Planning a path forward" says a move to x86-64 depends on having the source code to rebuild, and that sites without source need a different plan.

Three people in a server room, one gesturing toward wall monitors that show charts — An AI-generated image of engineers reviewing performance charts. It illustrates the kind of review involved and is not a photograph of any real system or customer.

Hardware is the third question. Intel took its last Itanium order on 30 January 2020 and made its final shipment on 29 July 2021, as The Register reported in 2019 under the headline "Intel kills Itanium again". Spares for an Integrity host now come from the used and refurbished market.

Questions to put to any account before you weigh it

Which platform did the account describe?

An account should name its system: HP-UX on PA-RISC, HP-UX on Integrity, or OpenVMS on Alpha, Itanium or x86-64. Emulation, rebuild and keeping a system in place are different routes, and an account of one says little about the others.

Did the account have the source code?

A rebuild on OpenVMS x86-64 needs the source, and sites without it need a different plan. If the account does not say whether the source existed, the reader cannot tell which route it describes.

What did the account leave out?

Oracle's documentation for version 19c says data moving from big-endian HP-UX on Integrity to little-endian Linux on x86-64 must be converted to the target format. That conversion adds a step and time to a cutover, so an account that reports a clean cutover without mentioning it deserves a second look.

When was the account written, and against which release?

Standard support for HP-UX 11i v3 on HPE Integrity servers ended on 31 December 2025. An account written before that date describes a platform on a different footing from one written after it.

If your own system fits none of these questions, send its details through Ask A Question.

Three dates that move the comparison

31 Dec 2025: End of standard support for HP-UX 11i v3 on HPE Integrity servers, as The Register reported in January 2026.
29 Jul 2021: Intel's final Itanium shipment, after its last order on 30 January 2020.
2505.11iv3: The last HP-UX release found in the sources we checked, the level to measure an estate against.

These are dates, not results. None of them is an outcome for any customer, and no account is reported here.

How an account reaches this list

An account is listed here only when three things can be checked. It names a published source a reader can open. It says which platform and release it describes. And it carries a date. This page does not take accounts by private message, does not reword what someone said in conversation, and does not write up a project nobody has printed.

This review found no account that passed all three tests, so the list is empty. The page will not be padded with reader quotes to look fuller. An account joins the list only when it passes every test, with its source named beside it.