In <[log in to unmask]> Denys Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
>
> At SIGIMAGE, Denny Allain, chair of SIGUNIX, took his courage in
> both hands and the microphone in the other and asked HP for IMAGE/UX.
> He has customers who want to migrate from HP1000 IMAGE to HP-UX (with
> no IMAGE but there is ADABAS, go figure!).  He was told to contact
> Denkart
 
I was the person that took the microphone for HP at the IPROF
Management Roundtable and suggested that Denny call Denkart  There is a
product sold by Denkart called IMAGE/UX which is exactly what Denny
asked for. It is an IMAGE/1000 compatible product that runs on HP-UX.
 
I know this because my engineers developed an initial version of this
product and I worked on the agreement with Denkart. They have sold it
to a number of customers over the past four years! (I am not aware of
exactly how many).
 
> which he immediately did, only to be told that they could
> not sell anything as HP had not given permission.  Denny retook the
> mike and explained this.
> No response was forthcoming from HP.  In all fairness, HP was taken
> by surprise and no one expected them to say anything.
 
I'll confess, I was baffled when someone told Denny that Denkart could
not sell the IMAGE/UX product since that statement is not true. In
retrospect, I wish I had just reinterated what I said above and ask for
Denny to come talk to me about it afterwords.
 
> But slowly, surely the cases for C++ and IMAGE/UX are building.  I am
> sure that HP is paying attention, we just have not reached critical
> mass yet.  (My guess is we are still a long way from
> this point but I am in for the long run.)
>
 
I am not aware of any TurboIMAGE compatible DBMS products available on
HP-UX from Denkart or anyone else. We are seriously evaluated the
customer benefit of having such a product. It would be a real challenge
to produce a product on HP-UX with the same performance and reliability
of TurboIMAGE. This task is getting somewhat more feasible as HP-UX
adds more HP3000 like capabilities (e.g. Journal File System).
 
Regards,
 
  Jim Sartain
  HP SQL Lab Manager