In November 2001, Hewlett-Packard began advising customers
to transition from HP e3000 servers to other HP server platforms
over the next five years. The rapid evolution of technology away
from proprietary platforms and customer and partner decisions to
move to other platforms led to the transition plan.
HP is offering customers assistance for their transition,
including migration services, financing options, consulting, outsourcing
and education. Customers with newer HP e3000 servers will be able
to convert them to HP-UX servers at no cost. Trade-in credits and
discounts toward the purchase of the latest HP servers running HP-UX,
Microsoft Windows or Linux also will be available. In addition,
HP is working with e3000 application providers to transition their
applications and then their customer bases to other HP platforms.
To ensure customers have time to plan any final server purchases,
HP will continue to sell HP e3000 servers until November 1, 2003.
During that time, HP plans to provide enhancements, including new
processors and storage solutions.
HP also will provide a broad portfolio of support services
for the e3000 servers until January 1, 2007. This support is designed
to ensure that customers have time to plan and execute a transition
to an alternative HP server platform.
HP is working with a number of tools, middleware and sustem
integration partners to offer additional migration tools and services.
A comprehensive program is being designed to track the tools and
services available and to create linkages between partners to offer
customer complete migration solutions. Partners cam find more information
on HP's partner Web site at http://www.hp.com/dspp/ or
they may sign up for the partner-transition program at http://www.hp.com/go/developers.
For more details on the HP announcement, please visit http://www.hp.com/go/e3000.
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