Thousands of companies worldwide rely on HP 9000 servers and the HP-UX® operating system as key components of their IT infrastructure. HP made a strategic decision to consolidate its high performance server product line by replacing servers based on PA-RISC and Alpha® chips with servers based on Intel’s® Itanium® processor. This new paper from TechWise® Research provides a detailed Total Cost of Upgrade analysis for upgrading HP-UX environments from HP 9000 systems to HP Integrity systems. It is based on data collected from actual customers ( 232 IT managers in the U.S. and in Europe) who have made this upgrade and quantifies the costs and benefits from the upgrade and provides detailed cash flow analyses for four different upgrade scenarios.