The HP Tru64 UNIX® Transition Benefits Calculator - make the move that optimizes TCO and ROI!

The ART program's Tru64 UNIX Transition Benefits Calculator, 2nd Edition presents HP's best effort to estimate costs and business value during and after a move from Tru64 UNIX to HP-UX 11i v2 on HP Integrity servers.

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HP recommends that when the financial analysis makes it right to relocate your Tru64 UNIX environments, you transition to Integrity server-based solutions that span enterprise UNIX with HP-UX 11i, Windows and Linux. We're ready to tune that recommendation to your specific application workload and business requirements.

• When you're ready, transition enterprise UNIX applications to HP-UX on Integrity servers. The HP ART program delivers hands-on help to facilitate and quicken the move. That reduces your work and accelerates payback.

• HP Linux is the right answer for some applications transitioning from Tru64 UNIX systems. HP engineers integration into its Linux and HP-UX 11i environments to eliminate the usual "multi-OS coexistence tax".

Tru64 UNIX Transition Benefits Calculator, 2nd Edition 

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• The calculator is produced by Alinean, Inc., a leader in IT financial consulting.
• Industry values used as defaults align with industry analyst values.
• Systems prices come from publicly available analyst data.

For enterprise UNIX installations, HP-UX 11i delivers the highest business value and lowest cost of ownership available today.

Alinean, a leading IT financial consultant, ran the numbers and publishes HP's UNIX advantages in these three papers:

• Click through the calculator questionnaire once quickly, accepting industry default values.
  Glancing through should take you under 2 minutes.
• View the results in the other tabbed sections of the calculator.
• Revisit the questionnaire to refine default values to reflect your own environment characteristics.
• Save your work for future reference and fine-tuning.
• Help notes are available within the calculator.

• Try modeling a single system first. Add others afterward.
  
• We've packaged this ROI calculator to make it easy to use, even without user training. You'll find it more workable to model logical groups of your environment individually. An installation of hundreds of systems should be modeled as logical groups separately versus altogether.
  
• The calculation for application transition costs and values considers applications at the overall model level, not the system- or cluster-specific level. Take care when you assign a revenue attribution to the application workload.
  
• From that you can see you'd want to group Tru64 UNIX systems that carry a common application load, and model that group individually to get a more accurate view of application costs and values.
  
• Model clustered systems together. Include other single systems that contribute to the common application workload, if any.
  
• Calculate replication clusters in a separate model assigning zero application revenue to the replication cluster. Replication clusters are geographically separate mirrors of a production cluster. The two clusters may or may not be identical configurations.
  
• Include storage with the systems they most support. Take care not to double-count storage in multiple models.
  
• Review the Alinean Transition Benefits white paper case study for additional examples and explanation.