On Fri, 18 Dec 1998 01:57:51 -0500, Divesh Singhal
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Hi all
>
>What are the limiting features of HP 3000 as opposed to the OPEN systems on
>offer today?
>Is there a market for migration from HP 3000 to a more state-of-the-art
>system like HP 9000?
>

Are you a developer, or an end-user?

The really only limiting factor of the HP3000 is that it doesn't have
the "mindshare" that other systems (which are considered "open" but
which have their own proprietary features) have.

Lots of people think about Internet bells-and-whistles when they think
open. Well the HP3000 has full ftp, ttelnet, and sendmail support, and
many companies run full-blown Web servers on them. It has a DNS server
and client. MPE/iX supports Perl and Java. It has a POSIX-compliant
shell for people who think vi is a good editor.

MPE/iX also has things like a REAL filesystem and a REAL memory
manager and a REAL user security model and a REAL print spooler that
many of the "open" system lack. Hardware-wise, it is actually the same
hardware as the HP9000 K-class systems. New peripherals and chips are
usually introduced on the HP9000 side first, but part of this is
because it's easier to write device drivers for UNIX since a cavalier
attitude towards software quality is a little more prevalent in UNIX
system software.

Lastly, as many people have mentioned already, the HP3000 was rated as
"most open" by the Gartner Group. Go figure. :)

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