[Info-vax] FMS and Datatrieve

[Keith Cayemberg]

On May 20, 6:33 pm, "Jeff Goodwin" <jgood... at maine.rrr-r.com> wrote:
> "Don" <don.z... at gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:d2a1314d-9f2e-4f30-8cff-42d62f6c6b74 at k16g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Are FMS and Datatrieve still supported by HP? I noticed both products
> > haven't been updated since 2006.
>
> Both are still owned, sold, and minimally supported by HP.  I just got
> licenses for each for an rx2800 system.
>
> -Jeff

I agree with Jeff, we (a large major tire manufacturer) continue to
develop and enhance several CIM applications using these tools.

These are considered "mature " software products, they do what they
were designed to do. And they were "permitted" to mature to the point
that they rarely or never need a bug fix. Contrary to a widespread
myth, "mature" doesn't mean dead, it is just considered to have
reached a feature plateau.  When there is a need they are ported to
new a new hardware platform with OpenVMS, as was the case with OpenVMS
for Integrity servers. FMS was already considered mature before 1992
when the AlphaServer platform arrived. Datatrieve was mature before it
anyways received an additional version allowing it to run without
Oracle CDD, and providing DTR with a new HTML report generation
capability.

HP still has web pages and SPD's for these products.
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/commercial/cpss.html

Cheers!

Keith Cayemberg