November 14, 2005
 
Press Release

For Immediate Release

OpenMPE is pleased to announce that it has engaged the services of
Martin Gorfinkel, of LARC Computing, to negotiate with HP on OpenMPE's
behalf in our effort to obtain the use of the MPE source code and to
organize our member-users into a sustainable enterprise.  “Martin is an
experienced executive with 30 years of corporate management”, said
Birket Foster, Chairman of OpenMPE. “We are at the point in time where
we need an executive to build out the plan for taking stewardship of
the MPE source code, and have the correct business plans and processes
in place” 
 
OpenMPE is in final stages of working with HP on strategies to support
the HP3000 customers past Dec 31, 2006.  OpenMPE has proposed to the
community a fee-based service for providing upkeep of the MPE operating
system and its environment. If this service comes on line, users of MPE
will be asked to commit funds to enable OpenMPE to hire software
engineers to take charge of the 68 racks of equipment and the build and
test processes which turn millions of lines of code into the secure and
stable OS we know as MPE.
 
“This will all take time and money to transition the knowledge to our
organization. Then we can work with users to prioritize the changes
required to meet their business needs”, said Donna Garverick, corporate
Secretary and OpenMPE board member.
 
“Now is the time for HP3000 customers to commit funds to this large
effort. Martin will be the driving force behind our program to sell our
services to the community. Martin will be adding detail to the business
plan as this transition goes forward and OpenMPE becomes operational.
Martin is the liaison with HP and the customer base and will be working
to produce an appropriate plan”, said Paul Edwards, Treasurer and
OpenMPE board member. 
 
For more information, please contact Martin Gorfinkel at 650-941-9310
or http://www.larc-inc.com/.  You are also invited to visit the OpenMPE
website at http://www.OpenMPE.org. 



Donna Garverick, HP-CSA   Sr. System Programmer
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