To our customers, our business partners and long time friends of the e3000
community
As a long-time HP e3000 vendor, we are deeply saddened by HP's announcement
to discontinue the HP e3000 product line. This marks the end of an industry
icon, a symbol of excellence, durability, and reliability. The HP e3000 has
always been known as Hewlett-Packard's most cost-effective and reliable
business server computing platform and years from now when people say, "They
don't build them like that anymore," many of us will be thinking of the HP
e3000.
However, Speedware is categorically stating that we have no plans to drop
support for the HP e3000 platform! As long as we have customers using the
platform, we will continue to produce new versions of our products for the
HP e3000.
Although Speedware technology helps to protect the application investments
of our customers, we know that HP's announcement will pose many questions
and may force some customers into the uncomfortable position of
re-evaluating their IT environment.
Speedware has prepared detailed information on how our customers can best
protect their current IT investments for many years to come. We have
prepared answers regarding the portability of our technology to other
platforms and databases, and have even put together a wide variety of
consulting services to help customers get there. Whether our customers plan
to tackle migrations this year or in the years to come, our goal is to make
their transition as smooth as possible for them.
For more information about Speedware's response to HP's announcement and
customer solutions please
refer to Speedware website at www.speedware.com
Regards,
Christine McDowell
Senior Account Manager/Western North America
Speedware Corporation
-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Leslie [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 11:46 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: We will still support the HP3000
John Painter ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: MPE Listers:
: HP has announced the end of 3K sales by October 2003 and the end of
: support of all systems by December 2006.
: I encourage all vendors who will continue to support the platform to
: "register" their support on this thread. There is no sense now in
: complaining about HP's idiotic decisions over the past five years.
: Let's band together for the sake of the users still out there who will
: continue to use their 3000s for as long as they can.
: My company, for one, will continue to support the 3000 in the
: capacities we have provided in the past for as long as there is ANY
: customer demand.
Perhaps some other company could buy the HP 3000, like Intermec's
purchase of the DEC PDP-11 product line ?
That assumes HP would want to sell it, and that someone like Intermec
would be interested.
Another possible approach would be an HP 3000 emulator, like the one
for VAX:
http://www.charon-vax.com/
CHARON-VAX is a software application emulating a complete MicroVAX
system. The MicroVAX components in CHARON-VAX are an exact model of
the real MicroVAX hardware and use the functionality of the host
system where CHARON-VAX runs, thus creating a 'virtual' MicroVAX
system.
This virtual MicroVAX permits the immediate execution of existing
MicroVAX code (like VAX/VMS, NetBSD or VAXElan and their applications)
--Jerry Leslie (my opinions are strictly my own)
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