<Mild plug>

Dinu,

What you want to do can be done sucessfully.  We have successfully assisted
a customer to port over 4Million lines of Fortran/IMAGE code from the HP
3000 to the HP 9000.  This customer is a large applications Independent
Software Vendor who wants to become platform independent.  They will
continue to offer their applications on MPE, however, competitive pressures
make it necessary for them to offer it on other platforms as well.

The database used is HP Eloquence (an IMAGE clone), the VPlus-like screens
are handled by Wingspan.  This is a very complex application suite that uses
just about every HP 3000 intrinsic there is. By the way, we can also use
relational database engines to replace IMAGE.  That's the good news.

The bad news is that such a project can be more expensive than staying with
the HP 3000.  Doing this is not a good idea for everyone and it is
non-trivial.   However, if you need to do it, <plug> we can show you how.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Ted Ashton
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 7:36 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Move our programs from HP3000 to HP9000 L?
>
>
> Thus it was written in the epistle of Dinu Iulian,
> > We have a HP3000 (S937)server with MPE/iX 5.5 where we run our programs
> > (writen in Fortran 77). We want to move our programs (and the
> data base -
> > Turbo Image)to a new HP9000 L Series with HP-UX 11 (we want to
> buy it soon).
> > Is posibile to run same programs without recompile or rewriting them for
> > HP9000 L Series?
>
> Dinu,
>   I'm glad to hear that you have not yet purchase your HP9000,
> because I think
> that you would be well-advised to reconsider that decision.  The 9000 does
> not have TurboImage.  You cannot simply move your programs over
> and have them
> run on the 9000, and while the 9000 is an excellent computer for
> some things,
> I do not think that anyone here would (except in perhaps some very rare
> circumstances) recommend your moving your 3000 apps over there.
>   Perhaps if you could explain a bit more about what you are attempting to
> accomplish, we could aid you in finding a method of accomplishing
> it without
> the trouble and expense of migrating off "the crown jewel of the computer
> industry" :-).
>
> Ted
> --
> Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
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