Well, I have a few reasons:

  1) Concerns on the part of management about the stability of the posix
interface. Perhaps due in part to the fact that the first time I installed
the gnu compiler from jazz, it caused a system halt due to the streams bug
(which has since been fixed). Plus several other issues, including one that
took an HP Escalation Engineer and a third party vendor over 6 months to
resolve, that force me to go easy on posix apps. Kind of a guilt by
association thing.

  2) Single source of support with less chance of finger pointing.

  3) Budget politics. Need I say more?

  4) What Mark B. said. :>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Armstrong [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 3:55 PM
> To: Chuck Ryan; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: 'C' Compiler
>
>
> Chuck,
> Depending on what you want to do I would ask why you would
> want  HP's C
> compiler
> since the gnu stuff is available for free from jazz. I
> suppose if you have
> source code written
> specifically for the HP C compiler then yeah I can see that.
> (If I squint)
> :)
>
> If you are worried about support then you can get that from
> the folks at
> Allegro:
> See:
>
> http://www.allegro.com/gccsupport.html
>
> for details.
>
> Neil
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chuck Ryan <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 1:14 PM
> Subject: 'C' Compiler
>
>
> > Has anyone recently purchased the 'C' compiler for the 3000
> and remember
> the
> > cost(s)?
> >
> > It can be a bit frustrating at times trying to get 3000
> related product
> info
> > out of HP.
> >
>