Richard Gambrell asks about the 3000 running HP's mission-critical operations:
 
>I wonder if anyone can get the story on how the 3000 came to be
>the choice.
 
The 3000 NewsWire's got it. You can see it in the July issue. (If you
haven't sampled us, browse to http://www.3000newswire.com/newswire to get
your free trial subscription started in the US or Canada. We send sample
copies overseas for first-time requesters.)
 
In a word, experience. HP had better MPE savvy inside its IT shop than
HP-UX capability. Read between the lines further into the story and you see
that MPE/iX was a better match for batch. The IT manager told me that
scripts would have had to be written to replace MVS file management, while
MPE/iX had JCL ready to do the job.
 
Does it really matter why the HP 3000 was chosen? Given the chance to move
it all to HP-UX, HP didn't. It's a matter of watching what HP does, rather
than worrying about what some of its employees say you should do.
 
Ron Seybold, Editor In Chief
The 3000 News/Wire
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