HP posted its first cut at its new SIU software inventory utility for HP 3000s up on its Jazz Web site, the first HP tool for assisting in migration efforts. SIU can be downloaded from jazz.external.hp.com/src/scripts/siu. Creator Jeff Vance of HP, who’s also on the board of directors of OpenMPE, Inc., said the tool “consists of a CI script, a database reading program file, the source to this program, and a simple file that maps account names to vendor company names. SIU scans your system looking at all databases, groups, directories and accounts, and attempts to categorize your inventory of files. The goals for this tool are twofold: 1) Help customers who are planning on migrating off of MPE better understand what are the important files they need to consider — they may have long forgotten that they are using some obscure IMAGE database or something like that. 2) It should be useful to system managers staying on MPE.” Vance said HP expects a full public release of the software in mid-February, probably available as a download from the Jazz site.