Past News

November 17, 2005

For Immediate Release

OpenMPE is pleased to announce that it has engaged the services of Martin Gorfinkel, of LARC Computing, to negotiate with HP on OpenMPE's behalf in our effort to obtain the use of the MPE source code and to organize our member-users into a sustainable enterprise.  “Martin is an experienced executive with 30 years of corporate management”, said Birket Foster, Chairman of OpenMPE. “We are at the point in time where we need an executive to build out the plan for taking stewardship of the MPE source code, and have the correct business plans and processes in place”.

OpenMPE is in final stages of working with HP on strategies to support the HP3000 customers past Dec 31, 2006.  OpenMPE has proposed to the community a fee-based service for providing upkeep of the MPE operating system and its environment. If this service comes on line, users of MPE will be asked to commit funds to enable OpenMPE to hire software engineers to take charge of the 68 racks of equipment and the build and test processes which turn millions of lines of code into the secure and stable OS we know as MPE.

“This will all take time and money to transition the knowledge to our organization. Then we can work with users to prioritize the changes required to meet their business needs”, said Donna Garverick, corporate Secretary and OpenMPE board member.

“Now is the time for HP3000 customers to commit funds to this large effort. Martin will be the driving force behind our program to sell our services to the community. Martin will be adding detail to the business plan as this transition goes forward and OpenMPE becomes operational. Martin is the liaison with HP and the customer base and will be working to produce an appropriate plan”, said Paul Edwards, Treasurer and OpenMPE board member.

For more information, please contact Martin Gorfinkel at 650-941-9310 or http://www.larc-inc.com/.  You are also invited to visit the OpenMPE website at http://www.OpenMPE.com.

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August 18, 2005

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