HP e3000 general manager Winston Prather quietly named a replacement for his former R&D manager post in the division during June, selecting lab section manager David Wilde to lead the engineers working on projects ranging from the above security alert to the 7.0 release of MPE/iX, due up early next year. Wilde, who has been with HP since 1984 and has been in the Commercial Systems Division since 1986, was in charge of the growth section of the labs, handling design of new capabilities for the IA-64-ready HP 3000s coming out early in 2001. He’s had positions ranging from CSY product marketing to managing solution teams dedicated to the problems of HP 3000 major accounts.