Reji Jacob was nice enough to ask:

>We are trying to see the possibility of porting some of
>the freeware/utilities onto MPE.

>Also we are looking for your wish list of things, you would
>prefer to have on your 3000.


Ron Seybold replied:

>Here's something nobody's offering on an HP 3000 --
>Domain Name Services.

I strongly second the motion on Ron's idea.

I know that at IPROF Harry Sterling said they weren't going
to officially do DNS (at least not now), but I sure hope that
does not mean he would discourage *volunteers* from doing
it.

Also at IPROF, Harry said that sites using a 3000 with an
intranet or the internet are by definition in the "Supplement"
category (see HP's definition).  That is true on the
*development* side;  but I would respectfully argue that it
should NOT have to be true on the *production* side.  With
OpenMarket, Apache/iX, and etc., we are close to having
the 3000 be able to act as an independent, stand-alone
production web server.....  Except of course for a few
critical missing little pieces like DNS.

Semi-SIDEBAR:  I'm in email overload after being gone for
a week, but I believe Mark Bixby recently said that he has
(or just about has) syslog working, so that should be there
soon if not already ?  BTW, if so, another attaboy for Mark !!


And then Charles Finley:

>How about a more complete port of DCE ?

I'll second that motion too, after DNS.


Ken Sletten