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On Wed, 6 Sep 1995 16:44:09 GMT Jeff Lindberg said:
>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.
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>> 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).
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>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 the "FastLane" migration package, and we got it too. It was *highly*
recommended if you were an early customer, but I don't recall it being 100%
mandatory (maybe they just slipped your ship dates if you turned it down).
I had the same training (in bitter-cold Rockwell MD in mid-winter), followed
by a week at the "Migration Center" in Atlanta where we verified CM operation
of a major application, and ported one application program to NM. Most of
this time was spent writing switch stubs for our SPL utility procedures.
Curiously enough, *nothing* we brought initially worked in CM, due to a
utility routine called at program startup that traced down parm/info values
(the stack marker format of MPE/XL started in pre-MPE V/E format, then it
changed back to V/E format around release 2.0).
>Don't know why you got a different deal. I can only tell you what my
>experience was. And it wasn't cheap...
I seem to recall just under $10K for training, consulting, and migration
center time.
[\] Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>
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