MB Foster

01/27/2026

2026 data and application migrations need some time ... are you thinking about changing out an application - [email protected] will get you information to get you started .... information developed from over 300 database migrations.

01/26/2025

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05/21/2024

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05/21/2024

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10/11/2023

Sunsetting your current application? Chat with the MBFoster team about how to plan for decommissioning, and establishing history policies, and compliance. PLAN how to migrate and rescue the data smoothly, prepping it for the replacement application.

03/23/2023

Many organizations are reviewing their plans for their applications and IT - what we have found is that to mitigate risk some applications will need to be replaced, retired, or renovated. You can find more about how to assess your current application portfolio by having a conversation with the MBFoster team https://mbfoster.com/enterprise-data-services/application-inventory/ Give us a call at 1-800-ANSWERS and let's get your current application inventory figured out to get a starting point.

09/09/2022

Sunsetting your current application? Chat with the MBFoster team about how to plan for decommissioning, and establishing history policies, and compliance. PLAN how to migrate and rescue the data smoothly, prepping it for the replacement application.

04/19/2022

2022 is getting busy ... if you have a summer project, your team can get our hyperfast data migration SaaS https://mbfoster.com/enterprise-data-products/data-migration/ call us for details or write [email protected]

Our data migration product, UDACentral, is a robust data migration solution that was built by data migration specialists.

12/23/2021

11/10/2021

HP3000 Migrations
On November 14, 2001, HP announced the future end of sales date for the HP3000 software and hardware product lines. Here is what you need to know about your HP3000 and what it means for your organization.

So it is 20 years later and I am amazed that I am writing this knowing that there are still many customers relying on the HP3000 as a production platform. This shows that the HP3000 is still a workhorse, but have the organizations using it fully assessed the risks involved in continuing to have mission critical applications on the HP3000?

Evaluating the risks - Your organization’s highest risk is the people!

The risk of having hardware that is not available from the original vendor is real. First there can be no hardware improvements, and second the operating system will not get updated to include new integrations and techniques. New scripting languages like python, and security like SFTP or SHA256 are not on the HP3000.
Over the past 20 years all HP3000 support moved to third parties. Hardware and operating system support organizations have dwindled and there are only a handful of qualified individuals/organizations who really know the HP3000. You ought to be asking what the retirement plans are for the key personnel at your support organizations.
While hardware and even operating system support may have been contracted out the real issues will revolve around the applications. If your organization has a package, for the most part support from the software vendor has been over for a while. If you own your source code the odds are your programmers, architects and DBAs are thinking of retiring. Even the operators for HP3000 who can write a new daily, weekly or monthly script are likely hard to find.

Planning for 2022

We think your 2022 IT plans should include understanding how to transition applications that are on the HP3000. You can follow what we like to call the 3 Rs - Either you should be re-platforming the application, replacing the application or retiring the application.
If you are interested in a conversation about planning for the migration, we have helped move over 300 databases and applications since 2002.

Please feel free to reach out and contact our team –
give us a call at 1-800-ANSWERS (that’s 1-800-267-9377) – my extension is 204 - Birket Foster, CEO