(everyone must be in stunned shock....)

"Johns, Tina (T.M.)" wrote:

> I work on an HPe3000 system that is currently using TRANSACT for their
> programming needs. I was curious if there was a way to easily convert the
> old language of TRANSACT to JAVA.

there is no tool that i'm aware of that's designed to do this.  however, the
doesn't mean it can't be done.  imo, you're looking at opening a contract with a
mpe-savy consultant/company.

> Since I also have
> heard that the HPe3000 will not be supported after 2005 or 2006, could you
> also tell me what would be suitable for new hardware and the costs?

whoa!  where did you hear this?!?!?  certain older mpe cpu's will not be
supported as of 2002 and some will not be supported after 2006 -- *however* mpe
will be around and thriving long after 2006.

note to hp:  i was afraid something like this would happen.  folks are most
certainly getting the impression that mpe is going away (again?)!

> I was
> thinking that the HP-UNIX would work but am not positive.

java being java....yes, you can probably 'convert' your transact applicatoin to
java and have it 'run' on hp-ux.  but there are so many 'however's, that some
serious thought needs to be given to the whole project.                - d

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