Exactly.  What we are trying to do is find a new hardware home for the MPE
software, unchanged.  HP does not have the resources or desire to start
changing code at this point and even if they did it would (could) introduce
new bugs and issues that would (could) reduce the stability of the
environment.

Thanx,
        Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: OpenMPE Support Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
Tom Brandt
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 10:35 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [OPENMPE] MPE Licensing


At 07:28 AM 12/13/2002 -0800, Tracy Pierce wrote:
>iirc we were recently told the 3rd party stuff is 3 items:
>
>1) some unix stuff
>2) more unix stuff
>3) MBFoster's ODBC

<snip>

>re the 1st two, IF the emulator were software designed to run atop linux,
>all ux stuff could be just left out of OpenMPE, and ux calls could be as
>simply invoked as is MPE's HPCICOMMAND.  Voila, no 3rd party fees.

Somebody (Gavin? Jeff?) listed some of the 3rd party stuff in MPE, but
naturally I can't find it now. I think some of it is pretty fundamental to
MPE, and just can't be left out without serious consequence.

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Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
130 S. 1st Street, Suite 220
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1343
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