HP is hiring for TurboIMAGE expertise

A recent HP jobs listing advertised for a developer who could bring TurboIMAGE experience to new company applications. While the vendor has been advising its customers that the 3000 ecosystem is worn out and won’t recommend staying on the platform, the IT group is apparently not stepping away from using the databases at the heart of the 3000. Instead, it’s looking for experience in a platform that it no longer sells.

Eiffel, which HP says is “a highly-visible suite of enterprise-wide financial solutions for revenue, intra-corporate billing and financial inventory management,” will be using TurboIMAGE, among other databases. “Development will be done using COBOL, C, CASE tools, PL-SQL, Perl, and Web-related technologies on MPE and Unix platforms,” read the HP jobs listing, “using TurboIMAGE, Allbase, Oracle RDBMS and client-server technology.” The HP software project to provide “standard, corporate-wide financial accounting data used for tracking and reporting financial results,” one that includes the 3000, seems to beg the question: How soon will HP itself walk the walk that matches its talk about migration from the 3000? Under must-have skills, the HP listing demands “experience with MPE/TurboIMAGE/Allbase operating environment and tools.”