Web Enabling Your HP 3000

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to explain the technology and tools available to access data via an

HP e3000, HP 9000 or NT web server and integrate existing or create new HP e3000 applications

with these web servers.

First, let’s take a brief look at the evolution of HP e3000 toward today’s world of e-services. The

first HP e3000 with its operating system MPE was released in 1972. The HP e3000 has always

provided a superior and reliable platform in the computer industry. In the 70’s, it evolved from a

system for centralized batch computing to online host/terminal based environment.

In the 80’s, HP introduced a new PA-RISC hardware architecture running the MPE/XL operating

system. The HP e3000 continued its upward expansion by providing terabytes of disk storage,

supporting hundreds of terminals and PCs, and revitalizing the Image database to the high per-

formance TurboIMAGE product.

In the early 90s, the open systems movement shifted the computer industry into a heteroge-

neous client/server computing environment. POSIX was integrated in the MPE operating sys-

tem along with bundled networking functionality, SQL and ODBC for database access. MPE/iX

provides interoperability with other systems such as Unix, NT and IBM with reliability, stability

and the strength of high-speed online transaction processing.

With the recent explosion of the Internet and the World Wide Web, the HP e3000 again evolves

by embracing new key web-enabling technologies (Apache, LDAP, JDBC, and SSL). HP e3000

users now can do business over the Internet. We will continue to monitor new industry trends

and activities in these rapidly changing environments and to refresh the platform with new tech-

nologies. We are committed to lead our customers to the evolving future —the new paradigm of

e-services.

HP e3000 evolves ... e-services