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I'm sure you'll get plenty of replies to this one!

There are *lots* of differences but in summary, Solaris is a more 'vanilla'
unix than HP-UX.  HP-UX comes with a better set of admin tools (sam).  It also
has changed a few apps eg: their 'awk' executable is more a nawk and /bin/sh
is POSIX and not bourne shell.

Other things:
- HP print environment sucks.  Sun's not much better but you can use
/etc/printcap at least.  We ended up using JetAdmin because we had all HP
printers
- admintool on sun sucks.  Don't use it.  Just learn the CLI way
- kernels are completely different.  HP kernels easier to configure (using
sam) but sun kernels easier on CLI.  The way modules etc are compiled in (or
not) are different too.
- Sun bundle s/w mirroring and raid utils (disksuite) - you have to pay for
Mirror/UX for HP which doesn't do striping or RAID5.
- HP bundle their version of veritas volume manager so you get journalled file
systems etc - you have to buy this from Sun.
- You can see Sun's BSD heritage in Solaris, and HP's SysV in HP-UX.  Coming
from a SunOS background I was a little more comfortable with Solaris coz of
the BSD hooks but SAM saved me when learning HP-UX.

There's a start.  I'm sure this the the beginning of a looooonnng thread.

Mark