3000 Emulator's Pricing, Release Schedule Debuts
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TSG to offer tool to make resource managing social Kenandy cloud to get 3000-savvy app in plans to replace MANMAN The Support Group is preparing its first app to fit into the new Kenandy Independent HP 3000 Information February 2012 Manufacturing Cloud. The company’s founder Terry Floyd is convinced this new cloud software solution, which can eliminate a lot of onsite IT, is capable of 3000 emulator’s pricing, replacing the traditional MRP/ERP applications that have been WIRE S .CO written for HP 3000s over release schedule debuts EW M N / the last 30 years. 0 B 0 L Floyd calls it Social once the customer O Stromasys starts with custom 0 MRP, built upon the projects to polish powers of provides hosting 3 G hardware. Stromasys for Force.com application virtualized hardware 3 provides a USB key which is a cloud 0 G computing version Stromasys has announced the to transfer the 3000’s 0 HPSUSAN ID code, 0 O of salesforce.com. pricing and rollout schedule for its N L Kenandy is the company Charon HPA/3000 emulator product, so software tools and E /B W M that is using Force.com a combination of Intel i7 PC hardware apps will recognize the S O emulated environment. WIRE.C to create a manufacturing and the Stromasys software. The cloud. Manufacturing has been software recreates the chip architecture Stromasys says the strategy is designed to give the noted as one of the toughest apps which MPE/iX expects from a PA-RISC to put into the cloud. Social networking processor, the kind at the heart of HP’s vendor a six-month period to polish the product by working closely with early gives companies a reason to make the 3000 servers. leap up there. HPA/3000 received this debut plan this adopters. These companies will be spending between $25,000 to $50,000 Kenandy’s foundation includes a quarter: Custom installations, a solution feature called Chatter. “Between forms priced above $25,000 per emulated to create A-Class caliber servers with performance from two to 10 times that and reports, I can use Chatter to follow server. A virtual software-only license a product on a big order,” Floyd said. aimed at smaller 3000 sites is set for of a rock-bottom A400-100-110 server. From engineering, through purchasing this summer, priced at under $25,000 See Emulator lineup, page 10 and including the interaction with vendors, Chatter gives insights and control that using email notifications cannot deliver. HP’s 3000 support interests Chatter looks like Facebook, only better, Floyd added. Chatter in Social MRP would connect 25,000-seat clearing away for indies installation at companies as large as In its public face, HP relegated to a marginal player in a market Dell and Google, but it also scales down that’s been choosing independent support providers for useful implementation in much smaller, 3000-sized enterprises. With over 82,000 customers and After a full year of absence from the HP 3000 community, the support arm of more than 2 million users, salesforce. Hewlett-Packard has been disappearing from customer choices for 3000 maintenance. com already has a big footprint on the Hardware is the only public offer that the company pushes on its old clients, according more traditional IT enterprise. Using to reports from the field. But HP hasn’t retracted its reach for the insurance-only Salesforce as the introduction should support dollars backed by a declining set of resources. make it easier to spark a migration onto “Most people have aligned themselves with an independent provider at this point,” a cloud solution with social spark. said Pivital Solutions president Steve Suraci. The shop that’s completely devoted to “All the pipes are built for an app,” MPE/iX and HP 3000 systems runs across straggler accounts when customers say Floyd said. “That’s what the developers they’re in the last 18 months of a migration and stick with HP. But it’s a rare encounter say about it. So a Social MRP user by now, at least in public. would just do the app part of their “It’s not as much as it had been,” said Pivital Solutions president Steve Suraci. “In customization.” The Support Group will this new year I had two customers come to me that they never received a message develop its Kenandy Manufacturing App See Indie Support, page 8 See Social MRP, page 6 The Support Group The Right Answer When Things Go Wrong The Support Group has generations of knowledge and expertise to make your company feel at ease. Our seasoned staff enables you to focus on your business while we focus on your HP 3000 system. The Support Group provides HP3000 Management • HP3000/MPE OS Support Hardware Parts and Maintenance Support Hosting customer servers in our secure Austin Data Center Third-Party Software Sales and Installation Disaster Recovery • HP3000 Parts and System Sales Data Migration and Integration • Data History Services Providing companies with peace of mind since 1994 800.798.9862 www.supgrp.com Contents February 2012 Virtual futures 3000 emulator’s pricing, release schedule debuts — After a wait of nearly 10 years, the 3000 community sees the first price lists and release dates for a range of virtualized hardware solutions to replace HP’s iron with i7-based PC boxes — 1 await for early TSG to offer tool to make resource managing social — Leveraging the opportu- 3000 readers nity to rethink MRP, the Support Group embraces an app for making ERP social — 1 HP’s 3000 support interests clearing away for indies — Even though Hewlett- A dream delayed is better than a dream Packard hasn’t vanished from the support field for 3000 hardware, independent ven- denied. It’s a natural element of being dors report a lot less HP offers to continue contracts and ample indie uptake — 1 human to look into the future, a skill Eloquence smoothing UX-Linux migrations — The multi-platform database your community has polished over the designed to operate like IMAGE/SQL becomes the least complicated part of leaving last decade. Across the same period I’ve behind HP’s Unix, according to one software vendor making the move — 6 done polishing of my own on a dream that looked denied, but has escaped its delays. 3000 connections still Padding in the future — With companies’ sales forces It’s Viral Times, the novel I began and executives bringing their own devices into the enterprise, 3000 IT managers are to write in earnest once HP stopped looking for iPad access to MPE apps, and finding it at first through telnet — 9 writing its futures for the 3000. This What becomes legacy? All tech, eventually — The 3000 emulator’s CTO outlines month the book is a reality in printed a new standard of expectations for the swell of vendor-centric technologies — 13 and ebook versions, available at Amazon. — An initial step towards 3000 migra- com and my Writer’s Workshop website, Decommissioning 3000 Application Data workshopwriter.com. I think of Viral tions moves their data to target platforms, using extraction tools for IMAGE — 15 Times as my 3000 emulator. It’s a project HP will migrate best of HP-UX to Linux x86 — Project Odyssey to put enterprise- devised from a sense of necessity, given grade features of Unix into a hardened version of Red Hat-based x86 Linux — 16 up for lost at least once, but revived and 3000 users examine migration, emulation — LinkedIn discussions include delivered after a surprising amount of developers, managers, consultants on manufacturing, hardware futures — 18 challenges in its creation. I’d also like to believe my novel has NewsWire Q&A: Birket Foster, Celebrating the Past, Looking to the Future — fans waiting in their seats to experience After 35 years of service to the community, MB Foster’s leader and founder is still its magic. Not a bestseller’s number of looking forward to the future of the system, while marking lessons of the past — 19 readers, partly because a wide-scale Vendors preserve HP 3000s for historical uses — AICS joins ranks of vendors release is no more likely than the expanding 3000 outsourcing to sites which don’t use the vendors’ software — 21 prospects for the Stromasys Charon HPA/3000 to reverse the trends of 3000 The Wide World of the Web — 22 ownership. But you don’t need to be We would like to thank the following sponsors of The 3000 NewsWire a bestseller to tell a good story with whose support of the HP 3000 community has made this issue possible meaning for the future. 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