In our case, most of our ISV tools would cease to function -- SUPRTOOL (Robelle)
and DBGeneral (Bradmark) are notable exceptions -- they have recovery modes
which permit a period of use (10-14 days, IIRC).  A couple of others would not
care about the CPU change -- at least, not right away.  :-)  All our other
vendors are more than willing to give us access codes to enable the software on
the recovery system for testing.
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Lee Gunter                    The Regence Group
Supervisor, TRG HP/MPE Systems     503.375.4498
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Opinions expressed are solely mine.





From: Chuck Ryan <[log in to unmask]> on 12/20/99 01:12 PM

Please respond to Chuck Ryan <[log in to unmask]>


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Subject:  [HP3000-L] Disaster Recovery




We are currently looking at a contract with a recovery service company to
provide hardware and workspace in the event we lose it all ( no this is not
Y2K paranoia... just a general disaster recovery plan ).

They will provide a 3000 that matches our current configuration. But, when I
asked them about the HPSUSAN and HPCPUNAME on the new machine being matched
to our current system so our 3rd party software would continue to run, their
reponse was that most 3rd party software has a trial period built in that we
could use to run on their system.

This seems a bit iffy to me.

Have any of you dealt with this? If so, how?