Denys after Stan after HP Tracy DeDore:
 
TRACY:
[.....SNIP.....]
>>>5.  What would be the benefits of porting
>>>     Allbase/4GL to HP-UX 10.0?
>>>     If Allbase/4GL were not ported to HP-UX 10.0,
>>>     how would that impact your environment?
 
.......    I note in passing the use of the word "porting" here.
Can you imagine anyone on the 3000 side;  user *or* HP
employee;  ever using the term "porting" to apply to, say,
going from MPE/iX 4.0 to 5.0 even with Transact, to say
nothing of Image/SQL ??.....  Bet not......
 
And how about the question of how sites might be
impacted if Image/SQL got permanently "lost" in going
from 4.0 to 5.0 ?!?!...
 
Guess I just don't understand the great and wonderful
open systems UNIX world........
 
BTW, note I'm not at all trying to beat up on Tracy here.
She still works with the Transact Lab too (at least AFAIK);
there are so few people in HP still doing that, I don't want
to get her mad at me....     ;-)
 
STAN:
[.....SNIP.....]
>> ... which makes me gleefully suggest:    Maybe HP will
>>  suggest MPE/iX as a migration path for HP-UX users?
 
If HP Corporate marketing management (hmmm.....  is that
some kind of oxymoron ??...) used a level playing field they
would......  But I'm not holding my breath.....
 
DENYS:
[.....SNIP.....]
>I guess as long as your system in open, your
>databases do not have to be?!?        :-()
 
Ah, gentle sir, but it seems you may be trying to apply
objective logical analysis to a patently illogical situation...
;-)  ,
 
Ken Sletten