> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schwartzman, Zelik [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 8:19 AM
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> Subject: Re: Stock Piles
> 
> 
> Well now I'm compelled to add another 2¢ worth (again)...If 
> we can get the good folks at HP to commit to a 9000-3000 
> conversion for A and (or) N class systems then hopefully the 
> would extend these conversion kits to future system models.  
> (as we use to say at NASA..thats really pushing the
> envelope)
> Zelik

Unless I am mistaken, HP is not planning on building too many more PA-Risc systems. 

That means that any 9000-3000 conversion kit for future machines would involve using MPE with an emulator under the proposed new licensing model. And as part of the proposed license strictly forbids vendors from bundling the OS with their products, plus HP's stated goal of controlling the licensing process with the least possible overhead, I do not see them entering a deal to distribute an emulator.

Of course we do not really know at this point what restrictions the final license will contain, the entire process has been as transparent as a brick wall, but I have heard nothing so far that leads me to believe that HP will change its position.

Come to think of it, it has been quite some time since we have heard much of anything on the license.

Comments are my own, not my employer's... Etc.