John A. Beckett wrote:
 
>Well, here we are at Interop.  It's a celebration of computers that can
>work together: TCP/IP, Client/Server, all that neat stuff the HP 3000 does
>these days.  A few-score thousand potential customers attending.  HP has a
>big booth with all sorts of stuff.  Except...
 
>Asked a sales lady why they didn't have one here.  She said, "those old
>boxes don't sell very well against the new hardware anymore."
[....SNIP....]
 
I went to Interop-Networld in Las Vegas last year;
basically asked the same question;  basically got
the blank-stare answer.  HP is doing a better job
of selling and advertising 3000's than they used to,
but continuing incidents like this one tell me that
Olivier Helleboid needs to do more selling of the
3000 within HP.  For HP outside of CSY, the 3000
still seems to be pretty much terra incognito...
 
Another note for the IPROF-96 HP management
roundtable:    Will HP have a 3000 at Networld-
Interop in 96 ??  Now that it speaks POSIX and
WWW, no excuse not to.....
 
ken sletten