On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:09:43 -0400, [log in to unmask] wrote:

>Here is part of the Interex Hot News for 8/6/98(see www.interex.org for
>complete article):
>
>HP TO 9.0 USERS: UPGRADE OR DIE
>by Mark A. Kellner, HP WORLD DAILY Staff Writer
>
>...HP said it would offer a free HP-UX 10.20 upgrade to users who are not
>on a support contract with the firm(HP).
>

In the 3000 world, this would be akin to to HP giving a free upgrade
from MPE/XL 3.0 to MPE/iX 4.0.

There are still a lot of customers in the HP-UX community running on
HP-UX 9.0 (or even earlier!) HP has been trying to work with them on
Y2K compliance issues, but have decided that it's cheaper for them to
make it easy for people to move to 10.20 that it is to keep supporting
9.X.

The problem for lots of migrators, however, is not cost, but just the
task of migration. Lots of home-grown applications (or applications
written by companies who are no longer around) would need to be
retested with 10.20. It's not as easy as doing an MPE upgrade, I
assure you. HP-UX 10 also introduced a new file system layout, new
startup and shutdown procedures, and other goodies that discourage
part-time admins when their 9.X system seems to be running fine on
it's own.

I wonder, though ... how many 3K shops out there aren't on S/W
support, a free MPE upgrade would be beneficial?
---

Mark Landin                   "For anyone who was never good at
T. D. Williamson, Inc.         anything, technology has been a
UNIX Sys. Admin                real boon" --- my mom