Wishful thinking? dreaming? Speaking of which..... Post Tuesday, and seeking opportunities to distinguish *ourselves* from the commodity world (isn't that the effective meaning of proprietary????): How about turning all of these energies into building a product that 1) maximizes customers' investment, especially in their own applications and their manpower and 2) provides the best of both worlds in terms of future applications/facilities? AKA: port MPE to LINUX themselves! Include the full port of Image by expanding/enhancing Eloquence to provide the power and efficiency and supportability of IMAGE coupled with the inquiry capabilities (and political correctness) of SQL-compliance (after all, Allbase is going away, right? Do we need to wrap a transformed Image database in an Oracle topcoat? Assist in the porting of the vast array of functional, resilient, and effective tools currently available on the 3k to the LINUX world - schedulers, spool-file management, data handlers, in addition to the Image utilities. Continue to support the need to tune to a mix of batch and interactive processing. Minimal or NO migration!!!! Win new customers to the reality of a functional have-it-your-way world! I use chocolate in both souffles and molles... just don't use garlic in both! ok, dreaming... but darn, I'd like to see the HP name continue to mean something! Maybe us old-timers shouldn't remember how good it WAS... * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *