Today is Presidents' Day in the US, a holiday celebrated to mark the success of two of America's founders, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. This year is just another year for HP's board directors to celebrate another mark, president and CEO Mark Hurd, who collected compensation far...

HP's Unix endures much of the same onslaught of hacker vulnerabilities as other Unixes. A Security Bulletin from this week, one of the steady string of reports which keeps up with needed patches for HP-UX, illustrates how new Internet features expose new breeches in the OS that HP prefers for re...

As HP leaves the baseball field that is the 3000 community, it’s handing the ball over at the pitcher’s mound to some well-known, respected or dedicated third parties. These independent companies will dish out what the post-2010 user needs. HP has been negotiating license agreements for hosting ...

[Ed. Note: We asked the 3000 community to tell us if a 3000 hardware emulator, powered by the last release of MPE/iX, would be of any use in the years to come. Many said yes, or perhaps. But one 3000 customer from a Canadian shipping brokerage makes reasoned points for why strapping MPE onto new, fa...

Emulating HP 3000 systems on non-3000 hardware has cleared a checkpoint. Hewlett-Packard will use its Right To Use (RTU) license to enable the 3000 community to run MPE/iX on non-PA-RISC hardware. The company will also offer a $500 license, for customers who don’t have licensed MPE/iX, to put the ...

ScreenJet commissioned editorial cartoons in 2003 about HP's migration push The HP 3000 community is moving onward this week, the first after the Nov. 14 celebration of HP's exit announcement about its e3000 business. But the news that changed the community's world first broke on November 5, 2001, w...

There's nothing to be bought in the 3000 marketplace now but used systems. HP has not built or delivered a new HP 3000 since early in 2004, which makes every computer sale a transaction that can be negotiated and calculated. HP has a tool to help with the calculation, an official measure of the rela...

After a week spent at the HP Technology Forum, I found my way back to the NewsWire office, but I haven't been able to pinpoint the definitive location of your community. Is the experience all about expanding technical choice and excising the old systems? It certainly seemed that way in Las Vegas at ...

Running a user conference is no easy task, especially if your organization must partner with a powerful ally. There are many places where the gears can jam up on a machine that gathers thousands of people for four days of talk and learning. But after 24 years of covering Hewlett-Packard user events,...

Hewlett-Packard has announced its exit from another of its enterprise server lines, ending the life of the HP 9000. The process mirrors the departure of the HP 3000 from the vendor's product line: Ending sales orders, then all shipping in 2009, with parts and support no longer available from HP afte...