I think IBM has loved the death of the HP 3000.  Everyone I know who's on 
the AS400 platform, or I series, loves it.  It's good stuff.

John Lee



At 12:30 PM 6/26/08 -0500, Chuck Ryan wrote:
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>From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf Of Jeff Kell
>Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 10:50 AM
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>Subject: Re: MPE strengths (was: Return Codes from CREATEPROCESS
>
>Peter M. Eggers wrote:
> > My feeling is that all of that "newfangled technology" should be
> > hidden away from the application programmer as it can only lead to
> > distractions from solving the business information at hand.  I also
> > believe that adding/exposing the Posix interface was a mistake, but
> > that subject reminds me of a number of other sore points, so I will
> > stop there before I go off on OpenMPE or something.
> >
>
>I have often wondered why HP did not try and go the other way, add an
>MPE personality to HPUX as opposed to adding Posix to MPE, and
>effectively move their entire MPE user base to HPUX via OS upgrades +
>the MPE-->HPUX conversion kits as opposed to doing their best to push
>everyone off a cliff?
>
>In the long run, would it not have been easier and avoided all the ill
>will?
>
>Oh well, our IBM server farm is performing exceptionally well and almost
>all traces of HP technology has been pushed out the door, even printers,
>with the last 3000 to follow in less than a year. And as much as I would
>have loved an emulated environment, to maintain an archive version of
>our MPE system, HP seems far to dysfunctional these days to be capable
>of making a final decision to release a license.
>
>Comments are my own, not my employer's... etc.
>
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