Hello Friends;
 
We are having a temporary service outage at our NewsWire Web site. Apolgies
to all who've looked for bulletins on the Propostion 3000 button story and
our Java bulletin. Text follows.
 
(ESPN Sportszone was out of commission on Sunday, so we're in good company.)
 
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Tired of letting IBM use the movement as a springboard,
HP embraced the fundamental idea of Proposition 3000 here by equipping all
of its CSY engineers and managers with buttons sporting the phrase.
<p>
According to David Green, the manager who oversees all of HP's customer
communications for the Computer Systems Organization, the buttons mean that
HP wants to make customers aware that they have a role to play in the
process that plans the HP 3000's future. Green wants to make customers here
understand that HP supports the founding concept of the Proposition: to
make the HP 3000 better through close attention to customer needs.<p>
Green, whose operations include the HP Advisor and the HP Technology Close
Up satellite broadcasts, said the NewsWire's June Q&A with Proposition 3000
spokesman and customer Jeff Kell helped him realize that Proposition 3000
could be a positive message.<p>
Wearing the buttons helps customers identify the HP staff from the
Commercial Systems Divison (CSY), but Green also hopes the buttons will
flag HP's intentions about improving the HP 3000 and addressing customer
needs.<p>
"We want to make it clear that we're still working together on this," he
said.<p>
 
 
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- HP surprised users at the HP World show by announcing
that the HP 3000 will support Java applications in a future release. The
announcement came as part of CSY General Manager Harry Sterling's address
about the state of the HP 3000.
<p>
According to Sterling, "We've had a great customer response to our Internet
efforts on the HP 3000. Our customers keep finding innovative ways of using
their HP 3000s to take advantage of the Internet and the World Wide Web."
<p>
HP said that "in the coming months" it will be working to prepare Java for
the rigorous demands of HP 3000 business critical environments. Sterling
said the only way to keep the announcement a surprise for the show was to
withhold the information from much of the CSY staff. "Our customers are so
close to the division, and we to the customers, that if we had talked about
it, everyone would have known." The announcement drew sustained applause at
Sterling's speech.<p>
 
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Ron Seybold, Editor In Chief
The 3000 News/Wire
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