On 2/13/97 6:53 AM, Moore, INTERNET:[log in to unmask]
writes:

<long job description snipped>

>Our organization is migrating from an HP3000 system to a DEC ALPHA
>platform running Windows NT, SQLServer, and all of Windows 95 Office
>Professional programs. We're moving from MS-DOS and terminals to Windows 95
>and networked PC's. I'm looking for an experienced HP3000 professional who
>can help us make that transition and then continue to work with in the new
>environment. The data conversions, software, and system replacements will
>take about two years. At the end of that process, you will be experienced
>and qualified in many new areas of technology. The HP3000 programming role
>will become one of programming in SQL and ACCESS. The HP3000 system
>administrator tasks will now be for NT networks. In short, if you want to
>move out of the rapidly shrinking HP3000 arena, and into the brave new
>world of client server software and hardware, you should E-Mail me at
>([log in to unmask]).

Rapidly shrinking HP3000 arena??????????

I don't know about the Archdiocese of Baltimore, but we are definitely
not in a shrinking arena here.  We are expanding.

This guy talks like the HP3000 and C/S are mutually exclusive.  Not so!
Look at the Web servers available for the HP3K.  What about Samba/iX?
He obviously is not conversant in the latest HP3K technology.

As far as SQL and Access go, I've programmed in VB and Access and I'll
take Image over Access any day for mission-critical applications.  As
Wirt so aptly said:

"The simple level of business success that HP3000 customers have been able to
traditionally achieve with the machine and its software is the only reason to
stay with platform. There is no other. But if our individual tasks are to
figure out how to extract as much money from our various employers as
possible, then we should each individually recommend a complete replacement
of whatever computing systems our employers now have in place every three or
four years. As a group, we profit best from inducing chaos. But such a
strategy certainly does the owning business no good at all -- and sooner or
later, there is going to appear a substantial push to make all of this
stable, reliable, productive, and profitable."

jbtucker seems to be a proponent of chaos as described by Wirt.

Rapidly shrinking HP3000 arena??????????

Wasn't the arena the place where Christians were fed to the lions? <G>

Jim Phillips
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