At 11:02 AM -0400 10/8/02, Tom Brandt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I have no idea what is happening with most of the HP3000 shops who are
>leaving MPE, but most of the 3000 shops I work with are not migrating their
>apps, they instead are abandoning the 3000 and the apps which run on it.
>What they are doing is investigating ERP or other packaged solutions on
>other platforms (most common among my clients is the IBM eSeries and
>Windows servers) and planning to write brand new ancillary programs to
>supplement whatever comes with the package. They will extract and transfer
>whatever data they can from their IMAGE databases, but have no plans to
>move their COBOL (or whatever) programs,

John Wolff refers to this as "resetting to zero" (and, at HP World in
Los Angeles, he had "upgraded" his comment to "resetting to negative").


>and have no use for most of the
>conversion tools being sold by the platinum partners other than the
>database extraction tools.

This might become a big "oops" for HP.

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