Announcing the HP Gold Dust winner

Over the past few months, we’ve been running a competition to find the UK’s oldest working HP-UX server. And we’ve found it – an HP9000/E35 first installed at the end of 1993 at the Oxford University Press, a department of the University of Oxford.

One of the departments of OUP is English Language Teaching (ELT), which has consultants based in over 50 offices around the world. The consultants in each region are usually qualified English language teachers and the ELT department in Oxford has a sterling reputation as an authority on the English language. The department has fostered a commitment for an ongoing investment in language research and new technology and still relies on the HP-UX server to dynamically store and manage its information databases.

The OUP will receive a free new entry level HP Integrity rx2660 server, plus installation, a licence for HP-UX 11i and a 3-year Support Plus 24 Care Pack. In the meantime, the HP-UX server will keep number crunching for the OUP team. “There’s life in the old dog yet,” said Geoff Butler, Technical Architect.