Recently, I have been appointed to the BOD of Greater Houston RUG, Vice
Chair of M.P.E., on a temporary basis until the next election. I would
like to have someone like 'Wirt' speak about the reasons to stay with
M.P.E. (I did read Wirt's reasoning on the AICS web-site), or maybe
someone from the OpenMPE. BOD. Also some other migration options, like
Linux, RM-COBOL or GNU COBOL, HP-Eloquence, QCTERM, using Advanced
Telnet. Additionally I would like to see the High dollar solution of
migrating from M.P.E. to HPUX, Oracle, because that seems to be what a
lot of users want to do. Heck, we may even bring in an I.B.M. solution.
I would like the M.P.E. potion of our upcoming meeting to be geared
toward both Migrating off the M.P.E. platform, and Staying on the M.P.E.
platform. For the following reasons:  1. Our mission statement is
basically to represent the Users of HP computers. 2. Some of our users
would like to stay on the M.P.E. platform, but don't see how. 3. Most
M.P.E. users seem to be in favor of Migrating off of the M.P.E.
platform. The reason for the favored choice to Migrate off M.P.E. is
because they have not been given a better option, or they have an
emotionally motivated enthusiasm to go to a different/popular platform.
I use the word "Emotionally" because I think that when you really think
this through, in most cases you'll see that staying with M.P.E. is the
best choice, at least for the next 10 years. Ten years from today many
more options will exist.  It seems most of the Regional Users Groups
members have lost interest in attending RUG meetings, anyone opinions of
'Why' is most welcome. I have a theory or two myself. Is it the content
of the shows? Is it a M.P.E. problem, or HPUX, or both? Could it be
related to the separation of M.P.E. & HPUX users?What M.P.E. content
would you like to see at the next RUG meeting?What would it take to get
you to attend?  --
Michael Anderson
Spring Independent School District
16717 Ella Boulevard
Houston, Texas 77090-4299
office: 281.586.1105
fax: 281.586.1187
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