In November 2001 Hewlett-Packard announced that they would withdraw support of their HP3000 product line. This means that all organizations that have business critical systems running on the HP3000 must adopt a new hardware platform to provide these business functions by the end of 2006. The applications providing these business critical functions must therefore be migrated or be replaced with a packaged product on the new platform.

Not doing so would mean that by 2007, a business could be impacted by issues on the HP3000, which they would have no means to resolve – a risk that most CEO/CIOs will find unacceptable.

• Defining long term strategy while replacing existing applications
• Keeping the cost low
• Identifying right partners and solutions
• Be in Control of Migration
• Leverage inhouse HP3000 Skills to handle migration
• Find Offshore Partner who can Maintain existing Applications as well as provide cost effective labor to tackle manual work / testing effort of Migration
• Cross Train existing HP3000 Resources  on New Technology. Their business knowledge is very critical