As the HP end of support date for the HP 3000 has come and gone, Allegro stands ready to provide excellent on-going support of your MPE/iX operating system and selected applications. Allegro holds a license from HP for the MPE/iX source code which gives our software specialists visibility into the operating system kernel and allows Allegro the ability to develop custom binary patches as needed. In addition, Allegro has relationships with many HP 3000 hardware service providers throughout the US and Canada. Allegro can have an HP 3000 independent service organization provide you with a competitive quote based on your system’s physical location(s).
Sure, there are other companies marketing the fact that they can support your HP 3000 operating system beyond 31 Dec 2010, but consider that the experts at Allegro have also worked with HP on MPE code development over the past 29 years of Allegro’s company history.
The Allegro Difference
Vendor B=Other MPE/iX HP source code license holders
Vendor C=Typical Independent Hardware Support provider also providing “limited” MPE/iX support
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| Category | Product or Service | Allegro | Vendor B | Vendor C |
| HP 3000 OS: MPE/iX Support | ||||
| Handle basic MPE/iX questions | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Licensed by HP for access to the MPE/iX Source Code | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Ability to develop patches based on visibility into Source Code | Yes | ? | No | |
| Have found deep rooted bugs and provided detailed information to HP on how to fix them | Yes | ? | ? | |
| Understanding of how to recover damaged files to the ābits & bytes” level | Yes | ? | ? | |
| HP3000-L and comp.sys.hp.mpe regular solutions contributors | Yes | Yes | ? | |
| Has taught MPE Internals training to HP’s own engineers | Yes | No | No | |
| Developed portions of MPE and IMAGE under contract to HP | Yes | No | No | |
| Wrote the book on āMPE/iX certificationā for use by HP | Yes | No | No | |
| Wrote a PA-RISC compiler: SPLash! | Yes | No | No | |
| Wrote the book on āPA-RISCā: Beyond RISC by Steven M. Cooper, et al. | Yes | No | No | |
| HP 3000 Products: sales/support | ||||
| BFree | Yes | No | No | |
| HourGlass | Yes | No | No | |
| Safe/3000 | Yes | No | No | |
| SPLash! | Yes | No | No | |
| HP 3000 Utilities: Sales/Support | ||||
| DiskPerf | Yes | No | No | |
| TapeDisk | Yes | No | No | |
| WipeDisk | Yes | No | No | |
| X-Over | Yes | No | No | |
| HP 3000 Application Support | ||||
| Robelle products | Yes | No | No | |
| Tidal (OCS) products | Yes | No | No | |
| HP 3000 Application Assistance | ||||
| Acucorp (MicroFocus) AcuCOBOL | Yes | ? | ? | |
| Adager products | Yes | ? | ? | |
| AMS Environment/3000 | Yes | ? | ? | |
| Bradmark products | Yes | ? | ? | |
| Computer Associates products | Yes | ? | ? | |
| HP- various including IMAGE, KSAM, Transaction Mgr. Disc Mirror, etc. | Yes | ? | ? | |
| Interex CSL | Yes | ? | ? | |
| Kelly Computer products | Yes | ? | ? | |
| Lund Performance Solutions products | Yes | ? | ? | |
| Orbit products | Yes | ? | ? | |
| Denkart products | Yes | ? | ? | |
| Quest products | Yes | ? | ? | |
| RSA Security products | Yes | ? | ? | |
| ScreenJet | Yes | ? | ? | |
| SRN products | Yes | ? | ? | |
| WRQ products | Yes | ? | ? | |
| VESOFT products | Yes | ? | ? | |
| Programming Languages | ||||
| BASIC | Yes | ? | ? | |
| C | Yes | ? | ? | |
| C++ | Yes | ? | ? | |
| COBOL | Yes | ? | ? | |
| FORTRAN | Yes | ? | ? | |
| GCC | Yes | ? | ? | |
| Java | Yes | ? | ? | |
| PA-RISC Assembler | Yes | ? | ? | |
| Pascal | Yes | ? | ? | |
| Perl | Yes | ? | ? | |
| PHP | Yes | ? | ? | |
| SPL | Yes | ? | ? | |
| SPLash! | Yes | ? | ? |