Someone wrote on the trauma of doing a 3000 -> 9000
conversion:

>Simply put, the human factor is quite high.  There is so much extra c@%*
>one has to learn for the HP9000.  Things that 3k people have taken for
>granted, (such as device configuration) that HP did for us, must be
>relearned.
[....SNIP specific undesirable options....}

Clearly what is needed here is the availability of needed
applications and/or the education of management to the
fact that the HP 3000 is NOT going away, so that 3000
users don't have to migrate in the first place !!!

Ken Sletten