As long as 3000 sites seem to be in no hurry to leave the platform, some MPE software vendors want to refocus on an ecosystem that HP said was in trouble two years ago. John Saylor at Quest Software says that “It looks like homesteading is the trend, and shoring up the availability and horizontal growth is appealing to customers. It seem their management wants to feel secure about staying on the platform for now. We here at Quest Software have seen an upswing in High-Availability (HA) solutions and clustered 3000s. Many customers have capacity, but are looking to provide disaster recovery, HA and expanded growth capabilities.”

Portraying the 3000 as the rock in a shifting sea of IT, Saylor adds that “As the world surrounding the 3000s changes, the back-end reliability does not. It is a stable platform, and with Quest Software we have the ability to insure the reliability and up time. So there should be no worries for these servers for years to come. Many customers have clustered multiple servers together to perform the work required — and cut software costs tremendously by dedicating a server to a specific application or business function.”