Hello Friends:

Alfredo has found an interesting article indeed. It also references a
19-month-old article written by HP as user group advice on the
Interex site. That article by HP is so old the vendor didn't even
acknowledge customers might keep their 3000 applications running.
More up to date advice from HP, still out there on the HP site as a
business issues white paper, considers keeping applications to be
only a medium-risk option, the same risk level as replacing them.

More important in the essay is the advice that HP might look at what
IBM did when the System 38 got its hook from Big Blue in the late
1980s. If HP really wants to win business from IBM, it might have to
start acting like the Number One IT vendor. HP can help in keeping
MPE alive for the customers who still want to use it as a
cost-effective environment. It appears that vCSY has to convince the
HP Services group (your vendor's support operation) this is a good
idea.

>A reference to this article ("The HP e3000 Is Really Dead!")
>just crossed my desk: http://tinyurl.com/2z75w
>
>As ANY essay, of course, it has its fair share of strange
>content, such as this:
>
>   Hewlett-Packard -- who had been marketing the machine
>   for almost 30 years -- finally said, "No more!"
>
>Rather than analyzing EVERY sentence, I will limit myself
>to providing the link: http://tinyurl.com/2z75w

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