In <[log in to unmask]> Denys Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]> writes: > > At SIGIMAGE, Denny Allain, chair of SIGUNIX, took his courage in > both hands and the microphone in the other and asked HP for IMAGE/UX. > He has customers who want to migrate from HP1000 IMAGE to HP-UX (with > no IMAGE but there is ADABAS, go figure!). He was told to contact > Denkart I was the person that took the microphone for HP at the IPROF Management Roundtable and suggested that Denny call Denkart There is a product sold by Denkart called IMAGE/UX which is exactly what Denny asked for. It is an IMAGE/1000 compatible product that runs on HP-UX. I know this because my engineers developed an initial version of this product and I worked on the agreement with Denkart. They have sold it to a number of customers over the past four years! (I am not aware of exactly how many). > which he immediately did, only to be told that they could > not sell anything as HP had not given permission. Denny retook the > mike and explained this. > No response was forthcoming from HP. In all fairness, HP was taken > by surprise and no one expected them to say anything. I'll confess, I was baffled when someone told Denny that Denkart could not sell the IMAGE/UX product since that statement is not true. In retrospect, I wish I had just reinterated what I said above and ask for Denny to come talk to me about it afterwords. > But slowly, surely the cases for C++ and IMAGE/UX are building. I am > sure that HP is paying attention, we just have not reached critical > mass yet. (My guess is we are still a long way from > this point but I am in for the long run.) > I am not aware of any TurboIMAGE compatible DBMS products available on HP-UX from Denkart or anyone else. We are seriously evaluated the customer benefit of having such a product. It would be a real challenge to produce a product on HP-UX with the same performance and reliability of TurboIMAGE. This task is getting somewhat more feasible as HP-UX adds more HP3000 like capabilities (e.g. Journal File System). Regards, Jim Sartain HP SQL Lab Manager