John Burke writes:

>Be still my beating heart. Check out page 33 of the October 20 issue of
>PCWeek. A full page ad for the HP3000!!! In PCWeek!!! Did I just use up
>my quota of exclamation marks? Well, it was worth it.
>
>Of course, the money would have been better spent ensuring the HP3000
>could be used as the database server for SAP or Baan - just one
>frustrated sys admin's opinion.

I get it....we spend the last n years beating up HP about not telling
the world how great the HP3000 is.

Then when they do, we complain that they are wasting their money and
it should be spent on something else.

I must respectfully disagree with John. I don't think the money
is better spent on wooing such software vendors. It has been tried
and it has failed....numerious times. HP cannot force this class of
vendor to use a specific platform. And if they do, it might only be
for a short period of time.

Tell me, what is a bigger waste:

1. An ad for the hp3k in pcweek

or

2. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars spent getting SAP
   to run on the HP3000 only to have SAP decide this was not a
   strategic platform. SAP subsequently replaced the running HP3000
   installation with HP9000 systems, not certifying the port for
   our beloved HP3000.

or the other war stores of bought or financed software ventures on
the HP3000 that went awry.

I highly encourage HP to spend money on things they can control.



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