I am a long time M.P.E. professional, since 1983.
On 11/14/01 HP decided to DROP it's own Flagship platform, the HP3000.
What other systems offer the same stability, scalability, reliability,
support, and a World-Class DBMS as part of the OS. Being an HP3000
professional you know the requirements for mission critical business
application platforms, and M.P.E. is exactly what meets these demands.
Looking all throughout the IT industry where is another platform like
this one. Only thing I can see is Windows, and all the various flavors
of Unix. If we don't get OpenMPE to fly, then the only thing that comes
close to what the HP3000 is, is the iSeries (formerly AS/400) from IBM.
IBM can offer the same stability, scalability, reliability, support, and
a World-Class DBMS (Not as good as Image) but is part of the OS. They
have a booth at HPW, don't they? We may give them a spot at our RUG
show.It took a tight group to get Linux to fly, and Linux is just
another Unix OS, only, it's Open Source. How much effort is going to
take to M.P.E. to be Open Source?  --
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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