HP will be announcing an end-of-support date for the Open Market software that's running at customer sites, but HP's Daren Connor said support will continue until that deadline. "I want to be careful that you aren't saying 'HP won't support the product,' " Connor said in an interview in late June. "We will."
How long that support will last hadn't been determined at presstime. Would HP's customers be better served not to deploy the Open Market server software they received this spring as a bonus for buying a new HP 3000? Connor had this advice: "That's somewhat up to each customer to decide." He said HP has told its customers "it's not a strong strategy to take delivery of the Secure product." No one can, since HP held up shipping Secure Web Server.
As for OMI's announcements, no public notice had emerged from the company by mid-July about its Web Server support plans. She added that OMI had stopped selling the Secure Web Server product and would support existing customers. The company will also continue to enhance the Secure product in areas where it would improve the integration with OMI's Transact Web transaction server product.