Wrapping up its series of Webcasts, HP couldn’t show any 3000 migration success stories any newer than three years old, although Webcast host George Stachnik said HP knew of “a huge number” of migrations underway. HP’s spokesman for the migration mantra acknowledged that only eight months had elapsed since HP’s announcement it will end its support of 3000 — but it was far closer to 10 months on the day of a sparsely-attended Webcast. The specifics on that “huge number” of migrating customers turned out to be something that HP wasn’t willing to share.

Its Platinum Migration partners didn’t chime in with estimates of how many sites are working hard on moving, either. “Most of what we’re working on is assisting customers in doing their planning,” said MB Foster’s founder Birket Foster, “largely because most of the customers didn’t have an opportunity to put a budget in place for migration.” Foster pointed out that customers will have to assign users and IT staff to such projects, much like Ceridian — a company that began migration more than five years ago and testified in HP’s Webcast. Ceridian assigned 70-170 people to the project during its three-year march out of MPE. The firm’s manager reported the company was always pressing the upper end of the 3000’s performance with its in-house written applications. Lund Performance Systems said it has some customers and prospects using the Denkart and Neartek migration products.