>Bruce Hobbs wrote:
  >On 15 Jan 1998 Stuart Pierce <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
  >>Comparison to cars is a little stretched. If cars would have evolved a
  >>quarter as much as computers have, we could tell it where to go and get
  >>there and sleep on the way.
  ><< snip >>
  ==========
  >I believe the remainder of that car/computer comparison is actually that
they'd
  >crash twice a day. I don't think anybody would be doing much in the way of
  >sleeping (at least not soundly). ;-)

Actually,

  The moral of the story is that the market is going to switch to mainframe
computing marketing hype once again as people look to simplify their lives
under the burdens of managing arrays of servers, thick clients and
distributed security.

 Will the HP3000 core technologies be positioned to harvest the changing
customer climate?  If the customer is going to drive a big car again, I bet
it will be a new one with all those 'gizmos'.

Eric Schubert