HP3000 Migration Statistics

[Witkopp, Richard]

PA-RISC emulator? I thought that was a dying technology too.
To be replaced by Merced, I mean Itanium, someday.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan M. Backus [mailto:JMBackus@TechGroupMD.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 3:44 AM
> To: 'Ha, Luan (AD)'; powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Subject: RE: HP3000 Migration Statistics
> 
> 
> Laun,
> 
> 	I can speak a little bit to the last option you 
> mentioned.  There is an organization called OpenMPE which is 
> setup as a co-op (member owned).  Right now there are no 
> membership dues and pretty much any end user or vendor that 
> participates in the  OpenMPE discussion group and activities 
> is considered part of the community.  The OpenMPE Board of 
> Directors has been working with the vendor community to 
> coordinate "virtual" groups that would be interested in 
> taking over specific aspects of the support and/or 
> development of MPE (including Image and the various HP 
> sub-systems).  The OpenMPE BoD had conducted surveys of end 
> users to determine the desires of the community.  It has been 
> working closely with HP to turn these desires into reality.  
> HP had a reasonably impressive list of announcements and 
> accomplishments that they presented at the OpenMPE session of 
> HP World, including the early stages of enabling companies to 
> create a PA-RISC emulator to eventually replace the HP 
> hardware currently used to run MPE.  One company, Software 
> Resources International (RSI), has already announced to the 
> OpenMPE community their intentions of moving forward with the 
> research into the emulator.  Another company, Allegro, has 
> expressed strong interest and desire to do the same.
> 
> 	More information, details, the OpenMPE discussion group 
> (including archives) can be found on the web site (www.OpenMPE.org).
> 
> Thanx,
> 	Jon
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: powerh-l-admin@cube.swau.edu
> [mailto:powerh-l-admin@cube.swau.edu]On Behalf Of Ha, Luan (AD)
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 6:27 AM
> To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Subject: HP3000 Migration Statistics
> 
> 
> 
> By now there would be quite a few companies have migrated away from
> HP3000. It would be interested to know what sort of 
> percentage or number
> have migrate to a particular platform such as HP9000, 
> PowerhouseWeb, .NET etc.
> 
> How many companies have decided to do nothing and continue to 
> depend on
> the HP3000 impressive & reliable track record ?
> 
> What is the possibility of another company taking over the 
> support and development
> of HP3000 beyond 2006 ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Luan
> 
> 
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