Ken Sletten after Jon Diercks with a plug from Rick Gilligan,

> > > Who would be the best person to contact at HP to pound in
> > the affirmation that customers *do* want SSL on MPE?  I have
> > delayed deployment of a major application in hopes ......
>
> After which Rick jumped in:
>
> > What he said!  Double!
>
> > Come to SIGWeb at IPROF.  Help me pound it into them.  My
> > banking application customers (all financial institutions) are
> > basically on hold, waiting for an SSL server on the 3000 and
> > don't want yet another box they have to support (like NT).
>
> As I think was already mentioned by Ron Seybold, the person
> to direct all harangues to in this case is Ozlem Ozturk (at least
> this week;  HP product and marketing managers change so
> often I have more-or-less given up trying to keep track of them
> long-term...   ;-) ).

Absolutely!

I've been up to my eyeballs and haven't gotten the agenda out yet (today, I
promise!) however, OnOn Hong will be giving "The State of the Product"
address (similiar to State of the Union Address, I guess).

SSL is a topic on the agenda, albeit not necessarily part of the "State of
the Product" - however I will e-mail OnOn and let her know that this is
something that she might cover as part of that portion of the meeting.

Other portions to be covered - Application Web Servers and how they fit into
the picture, and NT Interoperability with MPE in the Web arena.  We'll also
have an update on QWEBS (there's some news on the horizon for this product),
and Mark Bixby - who did the original port of Apache will be there as well.

In addition, there will be a session later that same day, for those who are
not taking off on early flights back to the east coast on "Web Enabling
Legacy Systems".  I'll be conducting that session with some others there as
well.  Complete with "on the fly building of an application" right there
(internet connection and laptop willing), you'll see how easy it is to
infuse web-based technology into your legacy applications.

Details will be posted on the SIGWeb Listserv and for good measure, they
will be posted here as well.

See you there?

Cheers,
Joe