On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Tracy Pierce <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> fwiw, http://www.transport.bi-tech.com/


Not sure what is there, as I don't have IE, nor do I run MS Windows for that
matter.  I'm guessing that you are trading one master for another.  Seems
like a bad idea to me.

I was thinking of replacing the necessary PM parts of SL.PUB.SYS with an
open source interface to Linux, creating something like OCTCOMP for
necessary binaries that can't be recompiled, and getting Adager, VESoft,
etc. on board to port over to the new MPE environment on Linux.  But once
again, there is neither the will, nor a ready market to justify the risk.
One would have to sell the Classic MPE operational and developmental
environment to a whole new generation, and you couldn't do that without
converting VPlus to create HTML screens and (Turbo)Image to call a generic
database layer interfacing to the user database of choice.

Anyone thinking that some other company than HP is going to have the
resources and will to do a better job of creating an MPE environment and
supporting it better than HP, I think is not being realistic and/or
desperate, IMNSHO.

Pete

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