Under "OT: Gas Price Whining", Christian Lheureux wrote:

>William wrote :

> > BTW my HP 3000 is fine - just keeps running.
>
>Yeah, same here. All 3 work like charms

Funny you should mention this.  I just spoke with a friend
who works at a major university (as in "billions of dollars
of endowment", lots of Nobel Prize winners, and so on).

Their hp3000 machines ARE their endowment cash registers and
they do a first-rate job.  The university certainly uses
all kinds of OTHER machines for all kinds of OTHER purposes.
But what do they use for what really counts (i.e., for the
absolutely most reliable gatekeeping in terms of their MONEY)?
The hp3000 running MPE-IMAGE, of course :-)

And this is just today's conversation.  I get exactly the
same "feedback" (to use HP's "management" term :-) all the
time.


>and they're not even on maintenance.

Many hp3000 machines are not on maintenance.  Many are, but
not on HP's maintenance plans.  Still many others are under
HP maintenance.  The fact that (most of them) keep on
trucking under circumstances that would drive lesser machines
to the dumpster IS an extremely powerful statement.

Be it as it may:

This EXTREMELY POWERFUL statement could be used for an
unbelievable marketing campaign by HP.  Unfortunately, the
business schools that HP marketing folks attended seem to
have drilled -- unbelievably effectively and powerfully --
the belief that this statement is "bad".

Go figure.

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