HP e3000 Links
26th September 2005	The Best of Hidden Value and net.digest (J.Burke)	These items were compiled by John Burke from the Hidden Value and net.digest columns that appeared in The 3000 NewsWire from January 1997 through June 2000. Excellent articles from System Administration to CI and Shell functions.
1st September 2005	HP3000 Newswire Blog	Ron Seybold's Newswire for the HP3000 has always carried interesting and detailed news about the HP3000 community and HP. Now Ron has started a Blog, free to all, which continues his good work.
1st September 2005	CI Programming for Stability	Jeff Vance continues his fine series of papers on CI Programming with this presentation given at HPWorld 2004. Other interesting talks from various HPWorld meetings can be found at http://jazz.external.hp.com/papers/#Training.
29th July 2005	LaserRom Manuals	The LaserROM documentation format is being obsoleted and replaced by the new HP Instant Information. Lars Appel has taken the time to produce this (unofficial) site as a "fun and (p)leisure time adventure".
9th May 2005	Syllogize Inc.	Syllogize, Inc. is a Northern California, USA based consulting group providing solutions in software development, network administration, system migrations, hardware configuration and transitional staffing needs.
9th May 2005	Summit Systems Inc.	Summit Systems offers affordable off the shelf software enhancements to HP3000 users. Their software packages allow you to add new features to your system without modifications to your application.
9th May 2005	Public Domain Software (3k)	3k Associates is offering a links page to much of the HP3000 Public Domain Software. The site also contains links to many articles and white papers for the HP3000.
9th May 2005	MPE/iX Beta Test patches	HP is making MPE "beta test" patches available to their customers who may benefit from installing them before they have been made generally available or "GR". This shows a list of "BT" patches by MPE release. If you feel your system(s) could benefit from the installation of a "BT" patch and you have a valid HP support contract you can contact the Response Center to order the patch(es) you would like.
28th February 2005	HP Software Licence Transfer	This HP site has links to the forms required, the processes involved and to a FAQ page for transferring Software Licences. Note the $400 transfer fee.
20th February 2005	PCL Escape Codes	This "Ultimate Printer Manual" site gives you most of the PCL Escape codes.
9th January 2005	MPE to Unix Commands Xref	Select an MPE command from a list and the site will determine the closest equivalent HP-UX command, or the entire table can be viewed. Some MPE commands may have alternative HP-UX implementations available from non-HP partner products. Documentation on the full set of HP-UX commands is available in the HP-UX Reference Volumes.
14th July 2004	Crawford Software Consulting, Inc.	Crawford Software Consulting, Inc. (CSCI) is a virtual network of highly experienced consultants focused on optimizing the performance of individuals and organizations. By applying traditional and non-traditional methods, CSCI is dedicated to helping clients reach their business objectives, on target, on time and within budget.
1st April 2004	Datagate Inc.	Datagate is the oldest and largest HP specific hardware support company in America. They started supporting HP hardware in 1978 and currently support most HP1000 systems in use today along with the HP3000 and HP9000 lines. They state that they will support HP3000's for at least 10 more years.
19th February 2004	M.I.S. Resource Group , Inc.	M.I.S. Resource Group, Inc. is a technology supply company specializing in today's leading-edge Networking, Storage and Server/Workstation solutions. Not only can MISRG provide you with state-of-the-art new equipment from name-brand manufacturers for your Production Environment, but they can also supply your organization with cost-reduced refurbished alternatives from major manufacturers for your Test and Development applications.
18th February 2004	Azurri	Azurri Computer Systems offer support (both hardware & software) on ALL HP3000 servers (whether currently supported or not by HP) and all other HP kit. Their support services will continue well past 2006 with no plans to discontinue HP3000 support. They also support non supported MPE/iX versions.
18th February 2004	AMXW (Automated Migration to UNIX and Windows)	AMXW (Automated Migration to UNIX and Windows) is a complete tool designed to migrate HP e3000 COBOL, SPL, C, FORTRAN and Pascal application environments to the HP 9000, Integrity Itanium, Windows, Linux, Sun or AIX platforms. Awarded the "Preferred Solution" status by HP, AMXW has already helped more than 350 organizations around the world make the transition from the HP e3000 quick and cost-effective.
24th July 2003	HP Partsurfer	HP PartSurfer is your online connection for up-to-date HP service parts information and much, much more
21st May 2003	HP's e3000 Transition program	The relationship between HP and e3000 customers has been a long one, extending back through the 30-year life span of the MPE platform. In the final years of the e3000's support life, in spite of abandoning the platform, HP still wants to be your partner of choice as your company makes the transition to a new server platform. For the short term, HP is continuing to enhance the e3000, and will continue to do so until October 31, 2003.
15th May 2003	HP Solution Provider program	The HP Solution Provider Program offers tools and services for you to develop, deploy, and bring to market, solutions for HP Printing and Digital Imaging products. Tools include developers kits, technical support, equipment loans and more. HP also offers the Printing and Digital Imaging program, the Digital Publishing Solution Provider program, the Mobile Printing program and the Appliance Printing Development Kit (APDK).
8th May 2003	MPE/iX 7.5 Update	Presented at the 2003 Solutions Symposium by Jeff Vance, this is a brief presentation of some of the new features and benefits of MPE/iX release 7.5. The speaker notes are included. Presented in PowerPoint format.
7th May 2003	Is your Homestead Secure?	or "Keeping your e3000 safe from Hackers until 2006 or beyond". Presented at the 2003 Solutions Symposium, this paper by Mark Bixby describes everything you need to know to help make your MPE system secure from hackers. Also available in PowerPoint format.
7th May 2003	Papers, FAQs and Tutorials	The Jazz website maintains an excellent link library of Papers, FAQs and Tutorials for the HP3000. CSY maintains the Jazz website and it includes free software (binaries and source code), pre-release material, technical white papers and other useful information for HP e3000 customers. Jazz is mostly a technical site and is updated regularly by MPE R&D lab personnel.
17th December 2002	Eloquence/3000	Eloquence is a database like the TurboIMAGE database that runs on HP-UX, LINUX and Windows that may be of interest to HP 3000 users on the MPE operating system. Many sites are happy with their existing HP 3000 applications and would like to replicate them on a platform with a longer future. For them Eloquence is a real option.
17th October 2002	TJ Systems Ltd	Since 1979, TJ Systems has been developing, supplying and supporting applications products and client-specific applications software. Their focus is on Hewlett-Packard HP e3000 MPE/iX Servers, Hewlett-Packard HP9000 HP-UX Servers, Migrating from MPE/iX to HP-UX and PC and client/server applications.
20th May 2002	Computer Design and Integration LLC	Founded in 1995 with an ambitious goal in mind: to provide the most innovative and comprehensive business solutions and services with experienced professionals to simplify the complexity of emerging technologies. Whether you are installing new systems, expanding, upgrading, or simply trying to smooth your system management functions, CDI can provide the knowledge and expertise to help you get to where you want to go. Their designs can enhance your business capabilities and include solutions utilizing providers like Cisco Systems, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Veritas.
29th April 2002	Melander Consulting	Melander Consulting benefits from over 16 years of HP equipment experience, including HP Netservers, 3000 and 9000 systems. They offer reliability and expertise in applying effective solutions whether for HP maintenance, HP sales or HP repair.
5th April 2002	HP e3000 EOL Transition Issues (Interex)	Interex Commitment to HPe3000 Users. HP's Decision Doesn't Sit Well with MPE Community by Denys Beauchemin, Member, Interex Board of Directors. The manner in which HP treats its MPE users as support of the HP e3000 comes to an end will be remembered a for long time. Interex wants to make sure it is a good memory and that new opportunities can arise from the present situation.
2nd April 2002	Transoft	Transoft is a leading international provider of application assembly, transformation and integration products and services. They provide a variety of services to assist customers in the transformation of their legacy systems. Their transformation services consultants provide the unique mix of not only understanding legacy COBOL and RPG applications and databases, and legacy proprietary environments - such as IBM S390, HP 3000, Data General, NCR, Bull, etc., - but also UNIX, NT, AS/400 (iSeries) and modern development environments, such as Visual Basic, Java and Web application development tools and XML.
15th March 2002	IBM iseries	Investigate the options available for migration from the HP e3000 to the IBM iseries (AS/400).
13th March 2002	G. Schipper and Associates (GSA) Inc.	GSA Inc. has been a provider of quality support services to the HP user community since 1983 - across Canada and the U.S.A. They specialize in system administration support and consulting services for both HP 3000 and HP 9000 systems.
1st March 2002	Acucorp	With the Hewlett-Packard Company's announcement of its five-year transition plan for HP e3000 users, advising them to transition to other HP open standard server platforms, Acucorp has just reaffirmed its commitment to the company and its platforms. As evidence, Acucorp, a member of HP's Developer & Solution Partner program, is continuing its ongoing work for the HP e3000.
27th February 2002	ViaNova 3000	Leave the platform but take your applications with you. ViaNova 3000, Ordina Denkart's HP3000 migration solution, transfers entire customer-developed environments from HP-3000 to Open Systems like HP-UX or Linux. Programming languages, database models, user interface libraries and all other components can be kept the same or re-engineered into other languages and subsystems.
25th February 2002	Why migrate? (Wirt Atmar)	Hewlett-Packard and a few others are stating that staying on the HP3000 for the long term is your least desirable option, the one that puts you at the greatest risk. Wirt argues here that remaining on the HP3000 is not likely to be all that much of a risk, at least for the next 25 years. It will certainly be your least expensive option and the one that will provide you with the greatest protection for your current investment in software and business procedures.
18th February 2002	Atlantic Tech Services	Atlantic Tech Services (ATS) specializes in hardware maintenance of Hewlett Packard systems, peripherals and networks. ATS offers support on HP 9000 and HP3000 computers. Since its founding in 1984, ATS has established a strong client base with the reputation for offering excellent services at very reasonable prices. Starting as a regional maintenance company, ATS has grown into a multi-office company with coverage extending throughout the United States.
1st February 2002	Cerius Technology Group	Cerius Technology Group Inc. offers HP-UX training for MPE/iX Users. Based in Seattle in the USA, they offer several courses to assist the MPE user understand the Unix system.
30th January 2002	Software Inventory Utility Tool (SIU)	CSY are providing this tool which 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. 2) it should be useful to system managers staying on MPE.
24th January 2002	FAQ on tradeup program and hardware conversion kits	Frequently asked questions for the HP e3000 TradeUp and Hardware Conversion Kits for customers interested in transitioning to HP-UX servers. There is also an HP ITRC Transition from e3000 bulletin board available to post additional questions.
14th December 2001	OpenMPE	It is the intent of this group to carefully and calmly evaluate the viability of the MPE/iX Operating System moving to an alternative entity that would allow for its support and enhancements to continue beyond the scheduled December 31, 2006 end of support date from Hewlett-Packard. Members of this group include Hewlett-Packard, MPE 3rd party utility vendors, MPE application vendors, and many long standing members of the MPE community.
6th December 2001	FAQ for HP e3000 2002-2003	Frequently Asked Questions such as : Why should current e3000 customers stay with HP products in future? Will there be any further performance enhancements to the current A- and N-Class servers? Are there plans to support 6-way or 8-way multi-processing on the N-Class? Or small N-Class servers with multi-processing (like N220 2-way, N330 2-way)? Will I be able to purchase system upgrades and processor add-on boards for A/N-Class servers after Oct. 31, 2003? Will I be able to purchase memory, storage devices (disks, tapes, arrays), and cards (I/O & networking)for A/N-Class servers after Oct. 31, 2003? Will I be able to purchase add-on software products after Oct 31, 2003? ...and more...
15th October 2001	DBTune/SQL	DBTune/SQL is the free utility from HICOMP dedicated to administering IMAGE/SQL databases ATTACHed to ALLBASE/SQL DBEs (Data Base Environment). The management of these two disparate database management systems is quite a handful, which is why DBTune/SQL was created.
20th September 2001	Ntp/iX Network Time Protocol	Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the clocks of one or more computers to each other as well as to external non-computer time sources. This distribution is unsupported freeware that has been ported and packaged by HP for use on MPE/iX and resides on the Jazz server.
31st July 2001	Apache Documentation for MPE/iX	This document explains how to compile, install, configure and run Apache 1.3 under HP MPE/iX. Also consult the Frequently Asked Questions page and the comp.sys.hp.mpe newsgroup or the associated HP3000-L mailing list, where many Apache users and several contributors are more than willing to answer new and obscure questions about using Apache on MPE/iX.
16th July 2001	OpenSSL	OpenSSL consists of implementations of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol and the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, a full-strength general purpose cryptography library, and associated command line utilities for encrypting and decrypting files, managing X.509 authentication certificates, composing and validating S/MIME e-mail, and much more.
16th July 2001	PCL to .pdf Converter	Pcl2pdf quickly converts PCL print files to concise, compliant Acrobat PDF. This is not a raster based conversion. Use command line versions in batch and unattended operations. Fully configurable. Specify default printer "front panel" settings including page size and orientation. Pcl2pdf automatically selects sensible defaults and can convert files of 1000's of pages.
11th July 2001	Configuration and Ordering Guides (hp)	The HP Enterprise Business Center provides the ability to price and configure the HP e3000 A- and N- Class servers online, while the guides provide more detailed product information. Neither service is designed to replace the formalconfiguration and quotation process.
6th July 2001	Companies that use HP e3000s	This is a known list of companies that use the HPe3000 computer platform. Not intended for commercial use, but rather to try and demonstrate the number and size of companies using the HPe3000.
27th June 2001	MPE/iX System Administration Handbook	Jon Diercks covers every essential tool and skill required for successful MPE/iX system management. He presents hands-on examples, solutions to common problems, and dozens of tips for streamlining operations and making the most of your HP e3000 system.
18th June 2001	Robelle's Knowledgebase	Search the Robelle Knowledgebase for information on Support calls or for technical information about Robelle products.
20th April 2001	Glassman Consulting Services	Glassman Consulting Services (GCS) is a full service information technology provider specializing in COGNOS PowerHouseŽ development, implementation and education services. They provide their services to those organizations who have invested heavily in either the Hewlett-Packard (HP 3000 MPEiX) or DIGITAL (Alpha and VAX) environments.
9th April 2001	Scripts on Jazz	A collection of command files/scripts and UDCs written by CSY and supported by Jeff Vance. This collection includes some very handy "improvements" of commands such as ABORTJOB and Volume Administration commands, System CI-Like variables, PRINTO and WHERE.
9th April 2001	Blueline Services	Blueline Services is an HP, SUN & EMC services provider company located in Dallas, Texas, USA. They also offer a wide array of technical consulting, training and installation services. Included in their offerings are HP e3000 consulting, hardware sales, installation services and environment optimization services.
3rd April 2001	TAG Business Computing Ltd	TAG Business Computing is a software house specializing in communication products and is the market leader in hostbased fax and email automation on the HP e 3000. Since the launch of their TAGfax Gnet server for NT, the capabilities of TAGfax are available from any platform, including HP9000, Dec, IBM, NT and any platform supporting File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Products include TAGfax, TAG SMTP, TAGforms and TAGswitch.
26th March 2001	The Internet Agency (ADBC and Web/iX, Java and J2EE, etc.)	The Internet Agency provides a complete design and development service also hardware & software selection and configuration, independent advice on the selection of 3rd Party Service Providers, Internet and Intranet design and implementation, system installation, legacy system enhancements and migration. They are both an IBM Development Partner and a Hewlett-Packard Partner. As European distributors for Advanced Network Systems Inc., they provide sales, support, and development services for their Java based application development and migration products.
26th March 2001	The I.T.Agency (TRAX debugger etc.)	The I.T.Agency has selected a number of quality products for MPE/iX which they represent in Europe. This includes the CCS C/3000 'C' Language Compiler, CCS/VI , Trax Cobol & Trax 'C' Debuggers and SCREEN.
25th March 2001	MPE/ix 7.0 Operating System Documentation	Links to the main MPE/iX manuals and documentation including Operating System Core, Systems Management, General Networking, Debugging Tools and e3000 Communicator courtesy of HP.
15th March 2001	Tech Group University	The Tech Group University is a teaching facility located in Hagerstown, Maryland, USA with a special focus on HP e3000 related education. While Hewlett-Packard enjoys record sales of this platform, the pool of trained users is very small and they would like to see that change by training students that are attending the host college in the fine art of the HPe3000.
14th March 2001	A and N Class Servers Information	This page at the HP e3000 Newswire details all the relevant information about the new A and N class servers. This includes model numbers, specifications, performance comparisons and prices.
2nd March 2001	IT Consulting Consortium	The IT Consulting Consortium was founded by Craig L. Solomon. It is composed of a group of IT Professionals who specialize in the HP e3000 platform but also support most major operating systems including HP 9000 UNIX, Sun Solaris and Microsoft. Their focus is on the integration of multi-vendor platforms, supplying reliable system management, project management, performance management, performance tuning, programming, application development, IT and system reporting as well as high availability and recovery strategies.
23rd February 2001	Programming and POSIX	A paper on Programming and POSIX delivered by Mark Bixby at the 2001 Solutions Symposium.
21st February 2001	MPE CI Programming	A paper on MPE Command Interpreter Programming delivered by Jeff Vance at the 2001 Solutions Symposium.
21st February 2001	Enhydra and IMAGE/SQL via JDBC	A paper on using the Lutris Enhydra Application Server to access data in IMAGE/SQL databases on MPE/iX systems via JDBC delivered at the 2001 Solutions Symposium by Jon Diercks.
4th January 2001	Software & Management Associates	Software & Management Associates, d/b/a SMA, founded in 1980 is a world leader in providing job scheduling and workload management software solutions. Products include THE SCHEDULER and OpCon/xps, the first Windows NT-based enterprise-wide scheduling solution supporting multiple platforms.
13th December 2000	HP WebWise MPE/iX Secure Web Server tutorial (Mark Bixby)	Mark Bixby's WebWise MPE/iX tutorial given at HPWorld 2000..
13th December 2000	Internet Security on Your HP e3000 (OnOn Hong)	OnOn Hong's presentation slides etc from a session given at HPWorld 2000.
14th November 2000	HP Information Library	HPs very well populated Information Library for the HP e3000 including brochures, Technical Data sheets, White Papers, MPE/iX software and case Studies.
14th November 2000	HPWorld 2000 Management Roundtable	This is a transcript of the HPWorld 2000 Management Roundtable proceedings. On the panel were : Nanci Caldwell(NC) - VP HP's Total Customer Experience Initiative, Mike Cox(MC) - VP and GM, HP's North American Business Customer Organization, Peter Van der Fluit (PV)- VP and GM, HP's Worldwide Marketing, Business Customer Organization.
14th November 2000	Black River Computers	Black River Computers was formed in 1988, and was among the first "third party", full service oriented companies specializing in Hewlett Packard mini computers and peripherals. They specialize in selling, configuring, service and support.
31st October 2000	Analog/iX (Andreas Schmidt)	Analog is a free, fast program to measure the usage on your web server. It tells you which pages are most popular, which countries people are visiting from, which sites they tried to follow broken links from, and all sorts of other useful information. It works in 35 different langauages and offers 32 different reports..
12th October 2000	Computer Financial Services	CFS, a Washington-based company in the United States, was established in 1980 as a developer of accounting software serving clients in the Pacific Northwest. CFS rapidly expanded nation-wide as clients learned the ease of the applications, together with the workhorse of the Hewlett Packard 3000.
3rd October 2000	Tidy/iX (Andreas Schmidt)	HTML TIDY is a free utility for fixing mistakes in HTML pages automatically and helps to tidy up sloppy editing into nicely laid out markup language. The original program was created by Dave Ragget and it has been ported to the HP3000 by Andreas Schmidt.
25th August 2000	Site Preparation and Requirements Guides HP3000 9x9/KS HP3000 99x (T Class) Hp-UX systems	Site Preparation and Requirements Guides from HP. The requirements are similar for the MPE and HP-UX systems as the harware is basically the same. Some good information can be found on the HP-UX pages that applies also to the HP3000.
18th August 2000	Ploticus/iX (Andreas Schmidt)	Ploticus is a freeware program which is able to produce graphics and tables in different formats out of data directly on the platform the data reside on. This is especially useful for any kind of Web publishing or other documentation task without moving the data to a PC platform where mostly such graphical software is installed.
17th August 2000	Tier Table	HP 3000 System Software Tier Table. This is the new system software TIER TABLE from HP. Systems no longer offered (i.e. discontinued) are in plain text and remain on their existing tiers. Current servers are in BOLD further down and are now only on three tiers.
20th July 2000	Managing HP3000s for the Complete Novice	George Stachnik's excellent series of 23 articles, formerly published in the Interact magazine, on managing HP3000s. A highly recommended read for anyone new to the HP3000 or even for experienced administrators who wish to fill any gaps in their knowledge.
4th July 2000	Cortlandt Software	Specializing in supporting HP MANMAN users and experienced with HP 3000, FORTRAN, Powerhouse QUIZ, UDMS, COBOL and MANMAN/HP, Cortlandt Wilson has been working with HP3000s since 1980 and MANMAN for over 8 years.
14th June 2000	Manuals Downloadable from Jazz	HP3000 Customers can now download manuals from the Jazz website that they can print on their own devices, as well as search. The HP 3000 manuals have been put in PDF format, which can be browsed with the free Acrobat reader while not online or from PCs that don't have access to the Internet.
9th June 2000	Quadax Inc.	A pioneer in electronic claims processing since 1973, Quadax provides a full line of products and services for the healthcare industry supporting a variety of operations -- from small independent practices to large physician groups, clinics, hospitals, dentists, pharmacies, ambulance companies, and billing services in the United States. They market the Healthcare Accounts Receivable Processor, HARP2000, which is a high-powered professional (physician) fee billing and accounts receivable management system which runs on the HP3000
9th May 2000	MPE Start4All Links	A great collection of MPE links for the HP e3000, similar to the links collected here :o), compiled by Arjan Snoek and in conjunction with http://www.start4all.com.
10th March 2000	Basic/3000 Interpreter Pocket Guide (AICS)	Basic/3000 pocket guide with a table of contents for individual commands, courtesy of Wirt Atmar and AICS Research.
3rd March 2000	Solutions Symposium 2000 papers	Some papers from the Solutions Symposium 2000 including CI Programming by Jeff Vance, Programming and POSIX by Steve Hoogheem and HP3000 Middleware by Alvina Nishimoto.
17th February 2000	HP3000 Communicator MPE/iX 6.5	Pre-release of the Communicator for MPE/iX 6.5 courtesy of Jazz.
16th February 2000	Pro 3K (Mark Ranft)	Mark Ranft Consulting was incorporated and began doing business as Pro 3K in early 1998. Prior to that the sole proprietorship company had been doing consulting for ten years. Pro 3K's CEO is Mr. Mark Ranft who has been working on MPE and the HP 3000 since 1980. His expansive knowledge covers everything from HP 3000 system administration, systems programming, application programming and computer operations. Interoperability, system performance, capacity planning and training are some of his strengths.
4th February 2000	GNU Utilities Software Suite	The GNU Suite was contributed by Mark Klein and includes : autoconf, autogen, automake (Configuration tools), binutils(Binary utilities, including assembler), bison(Yacc workalike), cvs (Concurrent Version System), egcs (GNU Compiler System), flex(Lex workalike) and texinfo(GNU text processing tools).
17th January 2000	Euro and HP Lasejets	Hewlett Packard is offering customers several ways to print the Euro character on HP LaserJet printers. They offer software solutions and hardware solutions that enable HP customers to select the upgrade path that best fits their environment. Third party offerings are available for those customers who need or desire additional solutions.
30th November 1999	G.R.Helm Information Services	G R Helm provide research analysis, system design, software engineering, technology and consulting services for Information Technology departments to more effectively manage their Information Systems. They specialize in outsourced software development projects on the HP3000 and in providing Year 2000 software compliance services and tools.
30th November 1999	URCA	This is a French company who market SESAME (a security software tool), VPLUSVT (Access software to HP3000 MPE in VT220) and TERMINAL for the HP3000
5th October 1999	1999 MPE System Improvement Ballot Results	A list of the 1999 System Improvement Ballot Results for MPE hosted on the Interex website.
28th September 1999	QCTerm (AICS Research)	AICS Research (Wirt Atmar) offers this terminal emulator FREE. This constantly evolving emulator holds great promise for the future.
24th September 1999	Pete Vickers - Consultant	Pete Vickers is an independent consultant specialising in client/server applications with special reference to Hewlett-Packard 3000 systems, and Microsoft SQL/Server
23rd September 1999	PATCHMAN (Mark Bixby)	Mark Bixby's script to download, unpack and validate current HP3000 patches against the installed versions.
23rd September 1999	Message Boards (3kWorld)	3kWorld's Message Boards. A large number of boards for HP software and hardware and also specific Vendor boards for communication with vendors about their products. (Note: You have to Join and enter demographic info).
24th August 1999	MPE Shared Source Site	This is the repository for the MPE 'Shared' (as opposed to 'Open') Source. HP is offering Query, Editor and the Java Class Libraries initially but hopefully this will be extended.
24th August 1999	MPE/iX 6.0 CI Enhancements	Jeff Vance's presentation at HPWorld 99 covering the Command Interpreter enhancements included in MPE/iX 6.0
24th August 1999	Technical Papers at Adager	Alfredo Rego's Presentation at HPWorld 99 on designing IMAGE/SQL databases.
23rd August 1999	Phoenix 3000	As part of the resurgence of the HP 3000, Hewlett Packard noted the need for a new type of product-line for its MPE/iX customers. A segment of the market required price/performance points that were below the systems currently being manufactured, but with HP backing and quality. They needed, the same as new, but at reduced price/performance levels. This new product-line is called Phoenix 3000 and can be purchased from any of the more than 100 authorized resellers of new HP 3000s in North America.
23rd August 1999	3KWorld (Client Systems)	This is the new HP3000-centric portal set up by Client Systems with backing from HP, WRQ, Phoenix/3000, Speedware and many others. This virtual community provides a single point of contact to access news, information, products and services tailored specifically to the needs and interests of HP 3000 Server users and suppliers for the Hewlett Packard 3000 platform.
11th August 1999	HP IT Resource Centre (MPEiX Community)	Within HP's IT Resource Center MPE/iX Community you can find a wide variety of educational offerings and job-focused information. Check out the seminars, join a desktop classroom, or learn from home. You'll also find quick access to HP experts. Their goal is to make the site the place where you come for innovative methods to troubleshoot issues at work and to enhance your career.
3rd August 1999	Limits Document (MPE/iX 5.5)	The information contained in this document describes the theoretical limits imposed by the MPE/iX System Software. In many cases, these limits were obtained by calculating the theoretical maximums based on the table or object's total size and entry sizes. Please note that these limits apply to the 5.5 system release only. Also details limits and resource usage for the Data Communications software, Turbo Image, and ALLBASE/SQL.
26th July 1999	ROC Software	ROC Software has acquired several MPE products from TIVOLI. These products include: RoadRunner for MPE, DCM Pak, Maestro for MPE, Spoolmate and TapesPlus. ROC Software is a technical support and development company based in Austin, Texas, doing business since 1992. RS purchased Formation from Tivoli Systems at the end of 1998. The acquisition of these additional MPE products creates a "ROC Collection" that ROC Software plans to move forward with product enhancements and new releases.
13th July 1999	GUI/3000	GUI3000 is a new graphical front end for the HP3000 which is similar to the Windows "Explorer" or "File Manager" products. It works using Berkeley Sockets, supports multiple users and multiple hosts, and does not require sessions on the HP3000. It manages files, groups and accounts, provides information about your Turbo/Image databases, and establishes an interface to the HP3000 for carrying out commands.
7th July 1999	Porting to the HP3000 (Lars Appel)	Lars Appel shares his experiences of porting Unix based Open Source software to MPE/iX. By sharing his experience from various freeware-porting projects, the author gives an overview of the porting process in general, and guides through the typical steps using a real freeware package as an example. The chosen PGP example combines typical porting issues as well as a few exotic ones.
30th June 1999	HP World Publication	HP World Publication is produced by Interex and contains news, editorials and articles about HP systems with sometimes a mention of the HP3000.
25th June 1999	PCL Escape Codes (from HP)	This site is HP's site listing PCL Commands, Basic Page Formatting, and Font Selection for HP Printers. PCL defines a standard set of commands enabling programs to communicate with HP or HP-compatible printers.
4th June 1999	BBiwY (Big Brother is watching You)	The BBiwY system is intended for monitoring of sessions and the jobs executing on an HP3000 under MPE/iX written by Philippe Di Monte. It consists of two programs NETWATCH and IDLWATCH. Among other features, they can limit what programs can be executed by particular users and also logoff sessions after a set period of inactivity.
2nd June 1999	Internet Enabling the HP3000	An excellent article by Andreas Schmidt formerly published in the 3000 Newswire on setting up the HP3000 Internet Services.
27th May 1999	IA-64 Application Developer's Guide	A comprehensive description of the IA-64 application architecture, including the Application Instruction Set Architecture Guide, IA-32 Application Execution Model for IA-64, and IA-64 Performance Optimization Guide.
19th May 1999	PKZip/UNZip	Ported version of PKZip/UNZip to the HP3000.
14th May 1999	Deja News COMP.SYS.HP.MPE messages	This is a Deja News URL to enable people with browsers to read the COMP.SYS.HP.MPE Newsgroup using the Deja News interface. The newsgroup also mirrors messages sent to the HP3000-l listserver.
14th May 1999	Education & Training Consulting Services (UK) Ltd	This company provides education and training and also consultancy for the HP-UX and MPE platforms. The principal, Ian Sargent has taught a large number of technical courses for HP, including MPE, HP-UX and PC based. In addition, his role required advising customers on matters relating to the Education and Training of their staff
14th May 1999	HP Technologies, Inc.	HP Technologies is a contract programming company specialising in HP3000 and HP related software (i.e. AMISYS, ASK etc). They provide staffing and consulting solutions to a broad cross-section of healthcare industry participants and healthcare information system vendors nationwide.
12th May 1999	Idaho Computer Services, Inc.	Idaho Computer Services, Inc. is proud to introduce state-of-the-art financial management applications for local governments, school districts, and private businesses. The applications provide for data maintenance, processing, and reporting capabilities in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Products include DataNOW!
5th May 1999	HP Software Release Information	Link to HP's Software Release links page. Go here to check out the latest release information. Go to here for the MPE/iX release information.
21st April 1999	RS Tech Resources	RS Tech Resources support the Formation product. They began as a support organization for existing third party products. In 1993, RS Tech began to increase the scope of the technical services provided to include maintenance programming and enhancements to third party products while continuing to provide support services. In response to customer needs for replacement of their aging applications they have also increased their staff and now offer consulting services and new product development.
16th April 1999	TeleMarshal Telephone Management	A Software system for HP3000 business computers. Reduces unnecessary phoning, allocates all telephone expenses, maintains cost effective service and detects usage trends.
1st April 1999	End of Support Table (HP3000s) End of Support Table (Peripherals)	End of Support Tables for both HP3000s and Peripherals compiled by Bob Thelen. Updates will be ongoing as new information is received.
15th March 1999	Virtual Network Computing	Virtual Network Computing is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.
15th March 1999	ICS (Datanow!)	"Datanow is a System Manager's dream come true!". Any report writer can provide quick access when a key item can be used for record selection. But there are many times when you need to search on an item that isn't keyed. This is when DataNOW! really performs! High speed access to IMAGE, KSAM & Flat Files. Quick and custom reports, PC file extracts, Data Dictionary option, Third Party Index Interface, Group add, change & delete functions. Create KSAM subfiles and Join "Anything to Anything".
5th February 1999	Apache 1.3.3 for MPE/iX	The 1.3.3 Beta version of Apache web server for the HP3000.
3rd February 1999	MPE/iX 6.0 Reference Manuals	Most (if not all) of the MPE/iX 6.0 manuals online.