HP remains interested in 3000
improvements
Another Systems Improvement Ballot
(SIB) may be on tap for this spring, following an HP request that
asked for customers’ enhancement requests. Even though some
inside HP’s labs have doubts about the vendor’s ability to
execute new enhancements, HP’s liaison to the 3000 community
asked the OpenMPE board to gauge interest in what director John Burke
called “another, probably final” SIB.
OpenMPE was calling for requests
though the 3000-L mailing list and the OpenMPE list. Customer
response was light through the beginning of February, even though
many MPE/iX enhancements need to be ported back to releases earlier
than 7.5. “Back-porting existing 7.5-only patches could be a SIB
2005 item,” said HP’s Jeff Vance, “but so far there
seems to be little customer interest in pursuing a SIB
‘05.”
