Duane Percox wrote:
>
> And in the future, if MPE doesn't run on IA-64 then *no* vendor will
> be able to sell it because it will cost too much compared to the
> competitive offerings. Since they announced this port was 'second
> half of this decade at the earliest' you have a scenario where ISV's
> will be forced to leave the platform. They are not *stupid* at HP!
> If the system was selling and making as much money as everyone
> thinks it is they would have the resources to do the IA-64 port
> before 'the second half of this decade'.
>

One way to give new life to MPE would be to port it's competitive
subsystems to Linux, and provide emulation for the rest.  Maybe even on
top of HP's secure Linux.   If MPE were to be reborn as a "high
performance transaction business engine" add on to Linux, with a
set of applications already available and a community pushing it, it
might gain some popularity.

Richard
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