Instead of wasting valuable MPE resources porting UX packages to MPE, use
those resources to map the MPE filesystem onto HP-UX filespace.

Then you can run your modern open-source tools alongside your (re-compiled?)
MPE stuff, and HP-UX would actually have a valid selling point vs other
Unixen.

Tracy Pierce
I'll probably get laughed off the planet for this, but why not?  Back in
what, '88?, it blew me away that CSY did it the other way around; now we're
all paying.  Of course there was no way(?) to know that unix would win when
mpe was "so much better" - well, the user interface is a lot easier;-)
Anyway, I'm actually serious.  Any good reason this can't be done with
approx the same resources now being spent on maintaining this 'obsolete' OS?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gavin Scott [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:18 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: SIB '04
>
>
> Frank asks:
> > Gavin: What kind of licensing would be needed for Java ?
>
> I believe you need to be a big company prepared to shell out
> a lot of money
> to Sun for a Java license and meet many very complex and expensive
> requirements.  And then if you want to get into things like
> Enterprise Java
> features I think there's a whole new set of licensing and stuff.
>
> There are 3rd-party (and some free) Java execution systems,
> compilers, and
> class-library implementations, but none are really a
> replacement for the
> full Sun Java implementations which change on a regular basis.
>
> Once HP stops producing Java for MPE, there will be no future
> releases.
>
> G.
>
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