A reseller with roots dating back to the world of used hardware brokers had its reseller contract terminated by HP in March, and the company is liquidating its assets and reforming as Transformix Corp. Charles Finley, the founder of Open Ended Systems Corp., said HP cancelled his reseller status and wouldn’t inform him of why they did — which Finley claims is standard practice when HP steps away from a company that supplies HP 3000 systems to end-user customers. Finley is also filing personal bankruptcy as a result of the actions, because of his own personal guarantees to OESC and Con Am. The latter was a significant source of used HP 3000s for more than a decade. Finley said his new company is helping companies convert applications to non-3000 platforms, including a porting project for Summit's credit union application to the NT platform.