Duane's answer implies that Protos is a compiled language and produced
object code you could move from the development box to the A series. Right?





Duane Percox <[log in to unmask]>@RAVEN.UTC.EDU> on 02/07/2002 02:09:25 PM

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Tom asks one of the questions that has plagued
developers in the 3k community for years:

>We would like to upgrade (in the short term) to an A series
>box, but the cost of transferring our Protos license from our
>927LX to an A400 is prohibitively expensive.
>
>Unfortunate, about half of our programs are written in Protos.
>The rest are written in Cobol.
>
>One possibility would be to hire help to convert all the
>Protos programs to Cobol. And we are considering that.
>
>But that will be a waste if we later have to purchase
>third-party software anyway due to difficulties of
>migrating our home grown software off the HP3000.
>
> Any ideas?

Here ya go:

1. Buy used 918 for development
2. Use 3rd party h/w support
3. Buy minimal s/w support from hp
4. Xfr protos license to this box

Note that Cognos customers have been doing this for years :-)

duane percox

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