If you want to run on anything but Itanium servers running HP-UX, think about migrating to another platform at about the time you would have done so anyway – in three to five years when your hardware reaches end of life, the vendors' drama is forgotten and the issues behind them actually make a difference to you.
Far more likely, by the time you need to migrate any critical applications or databases, you'll be able to run them on virtual or cloud-based platforms that act as emulation layers, allowing you to run them on anything you want. So get ready to migrate, but probably not to anything Oracle, HP or Intel would like to lock you in to right now.
Kevin Fogarty writes about enterprise IT for ITworld. Follow him on Twitter @KevinFogarty.
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