HP-UX 11i: Celebrating 25 years of customer successes

If you think the last 25 years went by fast, just wait until you see what's next.

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Introduction

Built for tomorrow, 25 years ago

Back in 1983, when HP-UX 1.0 was first introduced, Ronald Reagan was president of the US and “Return of the Jedi” was a hit at the box office. The PC was but a toddler, the VAX an adolescent, the mainframe in advancing middle age, and the Apple Macintosh barely a gleam in Steve Jobs’ eye.

It was then that a new operating system emerged as a strong, powerful, dependable driver of business. The UNIX® operating system could be trusted with increasingly bigger, industrial-size databases and corporate applications…and it was available on servers backed by one of the big names in business systems—HP.

» Video: Mark Hurd and Ann Livermore pay tribute to HP-UX

Today, at 25, HP-UX 11i supports a lot of large-scale enterprise deployments, and is at the core of many mission-critical data centers. Architected as a customer-centric operating system, HP-UX—now in its 11th release—has become one of the most critical elements of global IT infrastructure. With a commitment to invest in technology focused on customer value, HP-UX has become a leading platform in the enterprise computing market.

Today, HP-UX 11i v3 solutions provide our customers and partners with leadership flexible capacity, secure availability, and simplified management. Tens of thousands of customers around the globe rely on HP-UX every day for applications that are the heart and soul of their business, including:

Moving money and information about money securely through the financial interchange networks
Applying for financial aid through the Federal Student Aid program
Scanning every paper form 1040 tax return filed with IRS every year

Today we celebrate our customers and partners around the world, and their success with HP-UX for the past 25 years. If you thought the first 25 years were great, just wait until you see what’s next!