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Last 20 Shows Blades may shore up Itanium futures IBM has announced a new generation of its POWER processors, news that has sparked a breathless report from Clabby Analytics about the future of the competing Itanium chips which power HP's Integrity processors. Although HP has been enjoying a lift...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Carlyfornication revises HP's history in raceFor somebody holding a medieval history degree, Carly Fiorina has made a life out of rewriting reality. Mrs. Fiorina is a sharp part of the HP 3000's history, poking the air out of a storied balloon that had three decades...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Samba breaches vs. features: UX vs. MPEHP released a new security patch last week to block a back door in the HP-UX Samba software, one of many that surface for HP's Unix environment. The vulnerability in versions A.02.03.04 and vA.02.04 running on HP-UX B.11.11, B.11.23, or...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Filing deadwood requires community's helpCharles Finley, a stalwart member of the 3000 community whose reseller firm once moved thousands of HP 3000s, is now working on migrations at Transformix. He was searching for a fresher copy of the job submission scripting language SLS, rumored...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Lifting and Shifting Data for AllA massive migration project is underway in the State of Washington, where a collective of 34 colleges is moving HP 3000 programs to HP-UX. It's called a lift-and-shift, but that's a primary way of telling the user base that not...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Retail futures for 3000 tote up at NRFThe annual National Retail Federation conference, which gathers this week for its 99th meeting, includes exhibitors and talks that can help shape the future of 3000-based e-commerce. But nothing our Editor at Large has heard at the meeting in New...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Not a word from HP about extensionsWe're well into the first full week of December, so customers are asking if HP will consider extending its support deadline into 2011, or even beyond. This has been the month of the year when customers, some running migration projects,...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Securing 3000 FTP: Clients yes, servers noWhen long-time 3000 customer Eveready Insurance asked if Secure FTP (SFTP) is available for the server, the short answer was yes. And no. A client version of the software to secure file transfers has been available for the 3000 for...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Migrations lift, shift, exchange commandsSpeedware announced the third phase of its online tool transfer from HP yesterday, as the migration partner rolled out the old MPE-to-HP-UX utilities on a new Web resource. The tools include a Commands Cross-Reference, an MPE to HP-UX Programming API...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
HP's 3000 legacy includes A, N-Class detailsIn our recent report on the seventh anniversary of HP's 3000 exit notice, we referred to a shining moment for the community. We captured the first-ever introduction of A-Class and N-Class HP 3000s on February 7, 2001. Although HP introduced...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
A New 3000, to Mitigate RisksAt this fall's e3000 Community Meet, ScreenJet's Alan Yeo shared an unexpected story. His company helped to establish a new HP 3000 customer site within the past year. While there's a lot of talk about the risk of remaining on...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
3000 tools lose one, gain another UK entryBirth and death are both parts of the 3000's ecosystem, even on the sixth anniversary of the system's World Wide Wake. The Wake was concocted by Alan Yeo of the UK-based company ScreenJet in 2003, a worldwide celebration in October...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
HP's history becomes a phenomenonThe company which created the HP 3000 is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. Perhaps it's the coincidence of a zero-numbered commemoration, but history that relates to the 3000 seems to be in the air this week. Most of it...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
OpenMPE searches for source moneyThe OpenMPE advocacy group is looking for investors. This all-volunteer, not-for-profit organization has passed HP's examination for a source code license. Now it needs money to pay for this license, along with some administration funding to make the knowledge available...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Just A Minute: Eloquence Update at the MeetEloquence database creator Michael Marxmeier gives a presentation at the recent e3000 Community Meet in this video, shot handheld from the front row of the SF Airport Hyatt hotel meeting room. Presenters had to limit talks to 15 minutes or...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Our 3000 reports move into a 15th yearThe 3000 NewsWire celebrates its birthday today, tying a bow on 14 years of publishing which began in 1995. In the fall of that year my partner Abby and I began our delicious journey through your community, one that remains...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Partners assemble at Community MeetIn another era we might have called them vendors, but the attendees at this month's e3000 Community Meet came together as partners. The 40 people who assembled at the San Francisco Airport Hyatt have been working together, or have that...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
HP retires docs link while experts retireA computer system like the HP 3000 has been changing for the past eight years, even though the vendor is tugging at its plug through this decade. HP resources are edging out of the community's picture, even while the experts...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Emulator history assists in HP licensingMembers of the HP 3000 community have doubted any hardware emulator would ever surface, often pointing to HP's reluctance to make a license possible. More than five years elapsed between HP's initial promise of a virtual MPE/iX license for PC-based...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
IT pros prefer serving own softwareIn a spot poll we launched yesterday, a majority of IT pros who manage HP 3000s want to keep software close to their own infrastructure. Although Software as a Service (SaaS) is at the top of HP's new offerings, these...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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