Are there firms that are still operating HP-3000's that are looking for
people with HP-3000 experience

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 1:18 PM ED SHARPE <
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> People had to learn to be self reliant  and accepting of the kindness of
> strangers.. our shop was always that way.. we were never under HP support
> but we were even fixing  hp 2000 systems before we had a 3000.
>  Dale Halterman used to refer to us as  THE HP COUNTERCULTURE
> Thanks to all that assisted us!This was in thev1980s
>
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>   On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 8:04 AM, Birket Foster<[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:   HP3000 Migrations
> On November 14, 2001, HP announced the future end of sales date for the
> HP3000 software and hardware product lines. Here is what you need to know
> about your HP3000 and what it means for your organization.
>
> It is 20 years later and I am amazed that I am writing this knowing that
> there are still many customers relying on the HP3000 as a production
> platform. This shows that the HP3000 is still a workhorse, but have the
> organizations using it fully assessed the risks involved in continuing to
> have mission critical applications on the HP3000?
>
> Evaluating the risks - Your organization's highest risk is the people!
>
> The risk of having hardware that is not available from the original vendor
> is real. First there can be no hardware improvements, and second the
> operating system will not get updated to include new integrations and
> techniques. New scripting languages like python, and security like SFTP or
> SHA256 are not on the HP3000.
> Over the past 20 years all HP3000 support moved to third parties. Hardware
> and operating system support organizations have dwindled and there are only
> a handful of qualified individuals/organizations who really know the
> HP3000. You ought to be asking what the retirement plans are for the key
> personnel at your support organizations.
> While hardware and even operating system support may have been contracted
> out the real issues will revolve around the applications. If your
> organization has a package, for the most part support from the software
> vendor has been over for a while. If you own your source code the odds are
> your programmers, architects and DBAs are thinking of retiring. Even the
> operators for HP3000 who can write a new daily, weekly or monthly script
> are likely hard to find.
>
> Planning for 2022
>
> We think your 2022 IT plans should include understanding how to transition
> applications that are on the HP3000. You can follow what we like to call
> the 3 Rs - Either you should be re-platforming the application, replacing
> the application or retiring the application. If you are interested in a
> conversation about planning for the migration, we have helped move over 300
> databases and applications since 2002 and have a proven methodology.
>
> Please feel free to reach out and contact our team -  we can help you with
> the planning give us a call at 1-800-ANSWERS (that's 1-800-267-9377) - Call
> Dan McDonald at extension 256
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> We look forward to working with you,
>
> Birket Foster
> CEO
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