When customers noted over the Internet that they’re facing a challenge to ensure their HP 3000 data will always be available for historical reporting — regardless of HP’s hardware plans — a new business emerged almost overnight. Wirt Atmar of AICS Research announced History Services, a service bureau operation using HP 3000s at the company’s New Mexico site “because we have no intention of moving off the HP 3000.” The 3000s will host companies’ data and applications and “are appropriately enough located in the Historic District of Las Cruces, NM.” More details are at the company’s Web site at aics-research.com/historyservices.html. Atmar adds that “we are not indisposed to increasing the service level to that of essentially a time-sharing service, where your applications also reside on one of our servers. Licensing agreements with your applications vendors will have to be worked out, of course, but that should present no real obstacle.Pricing for very large databases (many tens of gigabytes) are negotiable. With the rise of the Internet, our services are available worldwide.”