Joe Smith wrote:

> I'm sure HP stopped putting money into Oracle on the HP3000 when they didn't see
> a profitable return.

that why i'm strongly encouraging hp to form a busniess partnership with _____
(fill-in the blank with a company name producing rdbms for unix) to bring their
product to the mpe platform.  i love image but without an industry-recognized
relational database engine on the box there's no reason for other application
developers to bring their software over.  this, imo, is a viability issue....it's a
'build it and they will come' issue...it's a 'backing up the claim that mpe is
ready, willing and able to do e-commerce' issue.

> Certainly for us, we will migrate our
> HP3000 Oracle apps and NT Oracle apps to Unix.  One less reason to keep our
> HP3000...

<sigh>           - d

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