Interex Closes Its Doors

matt.cheek writes "I was just informed that Interex, the HP User's Group, has shutdown. Here's the notice on the organization's web site: 'Dear members: It is with great sadness, that after 31 years, we have found it financially necessary to close the doors at Interex. Unfortunately our publications, newsletters, services and conference (HPWorld 2005) will be terminated immediately. We are grateful to the 100,000 members and volunteers of Interex for their contributions, advocacy and support. We dearly wish that we could have continued supporting your needs but it was unavoidable.'"

Comments

Re:Backstory?

[Ingolfke]

Better information can be found on eWeek and Computerworld.

In short it looks like HP is holding a competing conference. Other user groups, like Encompass, are working w/ HP on this new conference.

Re:Get rid of Hpux

[calidoscope]

It doesn't do high end nearly as well as Aix, it doesn't do low end as well as Linux. And most would agree Solaris is better in the middle.

HP-UX started to fall behind Solaris in the mid to late 90's, HP was starting to waffle about the future of HP-UX, while Sun was firmly committed to Solaris. In the early 90's, HP-UX seemed to be a bit more solid than Solaris.

HP also did a good job of pissing off their customers by dumping MPE.