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. > >> 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). > >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]>