Hello everyone,

As things stand right now, HP has NO plans to release the source code of
MPE.  They want this OS to go away and stay gone.  Believe me, I have my
contacts and I will not reveal them nor myself for numerous reasons.

If I could make a suggestion, it would be that all of you die hard MPE
fans contact HP and plead for the source code after the support life ends.
In other words, call them every day for the next five years asking for
OpenMPE.

I hope HP will do the right thing and release the source code, maybe that
will happen when the company has a new CEO.

Feel free to flame me, curse me or whatever makes you feel better.

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Thus it was written in the epistle of Mike Church,
> The cost of yearly our hp 3000's yearly hardware maintenance $##,###.
>
> The cost of yearly HP support : $##,###.
>
> My boss's face when he sees the cost in $##,###,### to replace all our
> processes and programs with SQL 7 and VB......
>
> priceless...

yes, well.

On a general note, and not aimed directly at Mike, I want to say (as I
expect
I will again and again), that this announcement does not imply the death
of MPE
nor the migration off the platform.  *If* OpenMPE happens (and I remain
hopeful), MPE may well continue to be a viable option. *Even if it does
not*,
there are 5 years of official life and who knows how many more of
unofficial
(how many sites are still running Classics?) yet to go.  Folks, many of us
were
already facing the "death" of the 9x7 boxes and many had plans in place
which
continued the life of those boxes long beyond when MPE could be updated on
them
and when HP supported them.  This is much the same.

Ted
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them
sinful.
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