Greg Stigers wrote:

> I found the following at
> http://www.sterlingcommerce.com/about/partners/technology/hp.html,
> where Sterling Commerce discusses its partners, and on this page,
> HP:The CONNECT product family supports the latest PA-RISC-based
> HP 9000 and 3000 systems and the popular Windows NT-based HP
> NetServer product family.

> That's much more like it! It's not exactly in the collating
> sequence I would like to see, but it isn't last, or barely
> mentioned under anyone's breath.  It's just right there, plain
> as day, for anyone to see, the latest PA-RISC-based HP...
> 3000... Someone is proud of their work here.

I had found that too, but when you call Sterling, they know NOTHING about
this.  And I was speaking to their partnership marketing people and also
their technical people.  I mentioned the page you had also found, and
their response was that basically there was no such product available for
MPE/iX and they were not planning on having one.

I also had brought the subject up with Alvina Nishimoto, from HP, and I
believe she got the same response from them.

Too bad.  This seems to be the current (for now) standard, in the banking
community, for secure file transfers between various systems, including
mainframes.

These discussions were in May of this year.  Perhaps something has
changed, but don't count on that CONNECT:Direct being available on the
3000.

Sorry to burst your bubble.  I wish we had more software partners in the
3000 market.

Rick