HP Responds to Pressure From Anxious e3000 Users

摘要

In a turnabout forced by pres-sure from HP e3000 users, Hewlett-Packard Co. has reopened the possibility of enabling users to convert existing HP 9000 hardware into e3000 systems that run the propriety MPE operating system and its applications. HP stopped selling new e3000s last fall, so the systems can now be purchased only from dealers of used equipment. The ability to convert a used HP 9000 so that it runs MPE would give users "a surplus of hardware" for keeping the e3000 alive after HP ends its support in 2006, said Ron Horner, legacy systems supervisor at Lady Remington Jewelry in Bensenville, Ill.