You missed my point. HP hasn't ended MPE support as you stated in your
original post. Most likely you meant to say something like "announced end of
sales and end of support dates" - to be accurate. I used to say I wouldn't own
an IBM if somebody gave me one. However, if you wish to forward an evaluation
system for me to review....

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> The early bird.........
> The best laid plans.......
> Early to bed.......
> It's never to early to make a good 1st impression! (my favorite)
>
> Seriously, alot of accounts have been looking now to see what is out
> there. A conversion to a new application can take 1-2 years for approval
> (or more!) and the conversion can take an additional year or so.
>
> One HP 3000 App vendor (SSA)is offering a free license(restrictions apply
> of course) for license exchange to the MANMAN base to any of the other SSA
> application products (MK, MAX, BPCS, PRMS, Masterpiece and Infinium).
>
> Mitchell K. Kleinman
> Executive Vice President
> CCS - an IBM Premier Business Partner
> 949-476-0874 (Main)
> 949-261-3298 (Direct)
> 949-261-9164 (Office Fax)
> 425-940-1954 (eFax)
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Matthew Perdue <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent by: HP-3000 Systems Discussion <[log in to unmask]>
> 04/22/2003 10:17 AM
> Please respond to Matthew Perdue
>
>         To:     [log in to unmask]
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: [HP3000-L] New Platform
>
>  [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > I am just trying to gauge the usage of products with short term
> > life-cycles since HP has ended the MPE support. This means customers using
>
> > Ecommetry and ManMan (among others) will probably have to make a switch
> > from the MPE environment to either:
>
> <...snip...>
> You're a little early. HP support ends 12-31-2006. HP hasn't even stopped
> selling the platform yet, that's 10-31-03, a little over 6 months from
> now.

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