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Um, "guessed right about where our customers wanted to go"? I hope this
analogy does not offend by comparing something small with something greater
(being the following atrocity), but what comes to mind is looking at the
distribution of Americans of Japanese ancestry around the 1940s and
thereafter, and suggesting that the United States had guessed correctly that
they all really wanted to live together behind barbed wire...

Bruce asks
> how many NT or (more recently) Linux boxes are
> in HP 3000 shops doing a job that could just as easily be done by a
> small- to medium-sized HP 3000?

Are these jobs being done easily on NT and Linux boxes, or poorly, with much
blood, sweat, toil, and tears? Somewhere in those 3000 shops were
experienced admins who would just as soon have put or kept these jobs on
their 3000s! Bruce, were you baiting us? Do you share the common opinion
that this was a result, not of the customers' choices, but of HP's actions?

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com