Denys wrote:
 
>What is wrong with this picture.
 
>In the February edition of Interexpress, on page 5, there is a story about
>Software AG and HP opening a joint technology lab, with the express purpose
>of migrating ADABAS to HP-UX.  Towards the end of the story, there is a
>paragraph which states:  << ADABAS is an OLTP database server that has been
>well established in mainframe environments for more than 25 years and has
>been available on UNIX-system-based environments since 1991.>>  This lab
will
>be staffed by both Software AG and HP folks and is situated at HP in
Cupertino.
 
>So HP is willing to expend beaucoup effort in migrating a third-party
>proprietary database to HP-UX, but it will not consider making IMAGE/SQL
>available on HP-UX.  {:-)
[.....SNIP.....]
 
And of course lets not forget the *major* big-time $$ we understand
HP paid Oracle to bring *that* proprietary database to MPE.
Apparently HP is for all non-HP databases everywhere, even
25-year old ADABAS.....  But not Image/SQL to HP-UX..........
 
Ken Sletten