Here is a nice little demo of PowerVM and LivePartition mobility on AIX 6.1 I came across of on YouTube. It is very impressive to a see an application being migrated from physical machine to another without skipping a bit. Very impressive and hats off to IBM for advancing AIX on Power this far. Have a look for yourself.

HP hasn't failed to disappoint me in the last 8 years ever since HP-UX 11i was released. Not so much that HP delivers something bad for HP-UX, but rather it seems like nothing gets delivered at all. And each and every time you're left with a sinking feeling that this product is plain stagnating and rotting in the stable. With the last announcement of HP-UX 11i v3 update 2 when you would think it would be time for HP to come out of the woodwork and bring something fresh to answer the onslaught from Solaris 10 and AIX 6.1, HP came out with their latest invention - repackaging of the the same old beat up HP-UX 11i. Guess what, you can now buy HP-UX in flavours of Base OE (BOE), Virtual Server OE (VSE-OE), High Availability OE (HA-OE), and Data Center OE (DC-OE). Wow, HP gad me going for a minute! I was actually thinking they would bring something that would make HP-UX more capable and more competitive, but instead we'll be getting more colorful wrappers for the same old turd. I'm sure I would be less disappointed if HP would just it quiet and not make any announcements like this at all - that would bring less attention at how bad things are with HP-UX and how far behind Solaris and AIX it now is. At this point I'm becoming seriously surprised that people are still buying into HP-UX platform when HP is proving again and again that they're not even a little bit interested in developing the platform any further. The only things that are somewhat propping up the HP-UX are the advances on hardware front with Itanium, otherwise it is on a seriously shaky and aging foundation. I knew HP lost the plot on Unix platform a long time ago, but I was still hoping someone would finally wake up in the organization and realize that HP-UX is the biggest foundation of the entire high end mission critical business at HP and perhaps they can't just let it rot hoping that money will just keep on coming without making any effort. Well, I'm still waiting for that day to come. Until then, enjoy the continuous stream of non-announcements like this one:

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2008/080408a.html