Thanks, Ron,

for saving me having to research the article.

This article, thankfully, cannot be referring to the Denver facility in
general. I do not recognize Mr. Wood's name (my apologies if I've missed
you, Joe.) I am not aware of any 957 in Denver.

The Denver facility includes four HP3000s that I am aware of.  The largest
would be for the procurement function, which is indeed a massive operation.
 It is at least a four-CPU box, I'm thinking a 99? (Tom Renz could tell
us.) There is another that is mostly Plant Operations, including property
management, tooling management, "my" calibration tracking and recall system
(MIRTH), facilities maintenance, etc.  Another supports Product Assurance,
and the fourth (a little box) is shared for development between the procurement
developers and the plant ops developers.

I have heard of plans to migrate the procurement systems, but I do not know
to what. Last I heard, there were no firm plans for the other applications
I mentioned.

-Dave
-- Original Message --

>Hello Friends:
>
>Dave Darnell asked, "Was there any indication of who originally
>stated that the elimination of the 9x7 is moving the HP3000 out of
>Lockheed Martin?"
>
> From our March issue report:
>
>  "I have a Series 957 that does more work than most of the 70-plus
>HP-UX servers we have," said IS coordinator Joe Wood. "But because it
>is the only HP 3000 they are going to eliminate it and convert the
>applications to Unix. HP's obsolescence plan only helped to quicken
>its demise."
>
>
>--
>
>Ron Seybold, Editor In Chief
>The 3000 NewsWire
>Independent Information to Maximize Your HP 3000
>http://www.3000newswire.com
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