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.

Today, at 25, HP-UX 11i supports a lot of large-scale enterprise deployments, and is at the core of many mission-critical data centres. 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 programme
• 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!