February 2008 Newsletter
Migration to UNIX for HARP Standalone Clients
When HP announced the discontinuance of the HPe3000 line of servers running the MPE operating system, Quadax was forced to explore alternatives to the tried and true platform our HARP software had been running on for many years. After much research and testing, we determined that the UNIX/HP e9000 (HP-UX) platform would be the best solution, surpassing MPE for batch processing time and equal in reliability. We therefore made the commitment to migrate all of our clients to HP-UX. Migration was successfully completed for all in-house and Partner/ASP business by May 2007, and we are now focusing our resources on the final stages of this process—assisting our Standalone clients in migrating to the new operating platform.
In order to accomplish this, Quadax has established the following timetable to ensure that all Standalone clients wishing to migrate will have ample opportunity to plan and execute the migration with our assistance before the end-of-support date.
May 31, 2008 |
Formal commitment to a migration schedule. Clients will receive a scheduling form in the mail shortly. After this date, we cannot guarantee choices about the migration schedule or the cost of migration assistance. Contact Gina Judson at 440.788.2152 for scheduling or questions. |
Dec. 31, 2009 |
End of support for HARP on MPE; no new HARP releases for MPE will be issued after this date. |
Dec. 2010 |
HP ends support for hardware running MPE. |
Once on our migration schedule, clients can begin the process of purchasing a new system from a third-party vendor. The support team will be available to review proposed final configurations and to answer questions.
As an alternative to purchasing a new system, Standalone clients can also consider becoming ASP/Partner clients, allowing Quadax to host their system and maintain databases on our servers. Contact Brad Daugstrup at 440.788.2113 for details.
For further information on the migration process, see the following previous newsletter articles:
- Preparing HARP for the Future (Nov. 2007)
- HARP Energized by HP-UX (Aug. 2006)
- HARP Evolution (Feb. 2006)
- HARP Migration Update (Feb. 2005)