Solutions at this month’s Interex Symposium include 3000 guidance

March 2004

Solutions at this month’s Interex Symposium include 3000 guidance

Even though Interex has expanded its spring Solutions Symposiums to topics beyond the HP 3000, the program still includes some first-time MPE-related talks and the collected wisdom of long-time MPE advocates and experts. In the advocate category, 3000 NewsWire editor Ron Seybold will offer “Not So Fast There, Pardner,” a talk on the ways to make an HP 3000 serve as long as a site needs it, using the help of the community’s third-party partners. John Burke brings his advice on “Build, Buy, Port or Stay?” and “Extending the Life of Your HP e3000: SCSI Is SCSI,” and Wirt Atmar shows off the advances of QCForms in “Designing Platform-Agnostic Forms” to give 3000 applications longer lifespans. Migration advice is also available at the Symposium, where HP outlines its success stories about customers that are moving from the platform, and Eloquence creator Michael Marxmeier teaches “TurboIMAGE to Eloquence Migration” techniques to get 3000 data onto other platforms. Moving data and migrating COBOL applications get covered in talks from Speedware’s Nicolas Fortin and MB Foster founder Birket Foster, respectively, while HP’s Kevin Cooper will talk about what to expect from a migrated MPE/iX application’s performance once it’s on HP-UX.

The Symposium runs March 28-29 on the West Coast in the Hotel Sofitel at Redwood City, Calif. The hotel is served by a free shuttle from the San Francisco airport. Registration is $450 at the Interex Web site, www.interex.org/symposium.