James Clark,Florida wrote:
> But wouldn't the choice of staying in the ball game hinge on the
financial
> advantages of doing so? Maybe so many HP-3000 sites get all their work
done
> in Image and AllBase which is loads cheaper then Oracle, that no one
was
> buying Oracle or HP-3000's to run Oracle on. And I also think that
there may
> be alot more VMS shops then HP shops thus still mudding the water a
bit. I
> am not concerned one way or another whether HP uses Oracle or not. But
let
> us not get on a bandwagon and have HP spend money on something few
people
> want, when they could be spending it on improving the HP-3000
somewhere
> else. (The question is, does HP use its savings for the HP-3000 or for
other
> platforms?)
> James

This again sounds like the ol' days back, when the HP e3000 was a
"closed"
system with the legacy systems and the engineers played in the dusty
corners
with their Suns, HP9000 Apollos and everybody was happy with what they
had.

Nowadays you must NETWORK, CO-OPERATE, INTEGRATE, and
even perhaps SYNERGATE (hmmm... have I invented a new slogan ?)
and that is essential for HP e3000, too.  We have had the first two
longer,
and are just seeing the integration part to realize bringing the TRUE
synergistic
advantages of Information Technology.

At the moment you can run native Oracle on the  HP e3000, but more
importantly, you can INTEGRATE your Image/SQL based and Oracle based
applications transparently, without the need to do time and money
consuming conversion projects.  These are facilitated by having Oracle's

SQL*Net client and OCI modules on the HP e3000, and the Oracle
Transparent Gateway for Image/SQL.

So please, make HP realize that they NEED  Oracle software on the
HP e3000.

Yours,

eLahdensivu.