Denys says quite accurately, and I have to agree...
What I would add is this: Interoperability is defined (by most) as the
sharing of resources over the network to handle a given task. I am not a
Larry Ellison fan, but we agree on one thing, the "computer" is not a "box"
anymore, but the "network" - I've said this for years. To expect MPE to be
"all things to all people" is not reasonable.
MPE does many things very well, especially in the protection and serving of
data. There are things it does not do well, and that other platforms
perform better or are just plain more cost efficient. We do use BIND on a
3000 with NT DNS as secondary - and our email runs on both a 3000 (the
master gateway) and NT server.
We have web servers running on both the 3000 and NT - why? Well, I can say
that it's very easy to put web-based applications to access Image/SQL data
together under NT. I don't have to mess with Perl or other CGI scripting -
the tools we have make it extremely easy, and I have more robust editing
capabilities. This particular NT server interoperates with a particular
HP3000 behind the firewall - all without the user knowing a thing. If you
voted in any of the SIG ballots, you experienced first hand,
interoperability between NT and MPE. Quite a few of our clients experience
this every day.
(It's also faster in the processing department -- try inserting 60 rows to a
detail dataset, and have it done in under two seconds... we do that as a
matter of course - with NT/MPE interoperability and the tools at our
disposal).
So, another Unixland port to the 3000? I would rather see those resources
go to critical items on the ballots. If someone wants to port DHCP over,
great -- but again, I have free DHCP, DNS, Web Servers and so forth - all
free, so no, I don't know if I could justify paying for DHCP. I would
rather have my HP3000s doing the work they were intended to do - which is
not DHCP.
Regards,
Joe
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