At this time there are three different companies that have expressed an
interest in the idea of creating a "PA-RISC" emulator. They are Allegro,
Software Resources International (SRI), and Strobe Data. Now that
Hewlett-Packard has announced the plans for an MPE Licensing program that
would allow the MPE environment to be loaded onto "non-HPe3000" hardware.
Some of the ongoing concerns about this idea of an emulator platform have
come from the Independent Software Vendor (ISV) segment of the community and
they center around the ISV's ability to protect their investment from
illegal use.
        To help move the process to the next step OpenMPE is facilitating sessions
between each of the Emulator companies and the Software Vendors. An
invitation was extended to each of the potential emulator companies. At this
time, Allegro is the only company that feels they are in a position to
conduct such a meeting, which will be held on Tuesday, March 4th, 2003 @
1:00 pm (EST).
        If your company owns a software product that runs in the MPE environment
(i.e., application or utility) and you would like to be included in the
conference call, then please complete the form on the OpenMPE web site
(www.openmpe.org/EmulatorISV.htm)

Thanx,
  Jonathan (Jon) M. Backus, MPE-CSM ~ Chairman
  OpenMPE ~ 15 Catawba Place ~ Hagerstown, MD ~ 21742-6515
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