Welcome to HP-UX 11i Version 2

HP-UX 11i version 2 is the newest release of HP-UX 11i for the Intel®Itanium® architecture. This enterprise release offers a full range of HP-UX Operating Environments, including systems management and high-availability software products. Itanium®-based systems offer significantly better price/performance and performance scalability than systems based on current architectures, and HP-UX 11i v2 provides the best way to preserve your investment through the transition from Precision Architecture Reduced Instruction Set Computing (PA-RISC) systems to Itanium-based systems.

Hewlett-Packard's enterprise computing business has carefully planned the transition to Itanium-based systems, placing a premium on customer and partner investment protection. HP-UX 11i v2 maintains compatibility with HP-UX 11i v1 on PA-RISC through:

HP-UX 11i v2 offers these industry firsts for Itanium-based systems:

HP-UX 11i v2 brings to Itanium-based systems the full power of HP-UX 11i, the #1 rated UNIX operating system in the world (DH Brown 2002 UNIX OS Review; see http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2002/020530b.html). HP-UX 11i version 2 on Itanium takes its place alongside HP-UX 11i version 1 on PA-RISC as an industry mainstay for mission critical enterprise applications.