> From:          Jeff Lindberg <[log in to unmask]>
 
> Isaacblake ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>
> > >Oh, come on now.  I seem to recall going through about two weeks of
> > >coursework for the MPE V to MPE/XL migration.  Several months of in-depth
> > >planning.  Four days of downtime for the actual migration.  Not to
> > mention
> > >around nine thousand dollars of HP consulting time.  The hardware, being
> > >proprietary, was of course a known quantity too.
>
> > Funny I was one of the early-birds to convert from MPE/V to MPE/XL, and I
> > didn't have to do all this!!!  Further I didn't pay HP a dime to do so
> > (except for the cost of the new box).
>
> We were told that in order to get delivery, we had to purchase the
> migration package (I don't remember exactly what it was called) which
> basically amounted to a planning book and SE consulting time.  We also had
> to send our system manager (me) to migration training; 3 days for system
> management and 4 days for programming as I recall.  This was *not*
> included in the price of the system.
 
We had to request(more than once) 2 Migration planning books that we
found out about when we got the new manuals.
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Capilano College, North Vancouver, BC, CANADA.