"Jerry Fochtman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> In today's e-mail update from InformationWeek:
>
> /snip
>
> >- TODAY'S HEADLINES -
> >** Popular HP Server Bid Farewell
> >** Force Hospitals To Take IT Medicine--Advocacy Group
> >** Siemens Takes Collaboration To The Net
> >** E-Learner SmartForce Buying SkillSoft
> >** TECH STOCKS: Oof! Where's The Pepto?
>
> /snip
>
> >- TOP STORIES -
> >
> >** Popular HP Server Bid Farewell
> >
> >Hewlett-Packard is enticing owners of its once-popular,
> >now-doomed e3000 servers to buy HP-UX or Linux systems. The most
> >likely migration path will be to HP 9000 servers running HP-UX,
> >although buyers could also move to Intel-based ProLiant servers.
> >HP is using a number of migration programs, including one that
> >provides e3000 customers with "loaner" HP 9000s until they can
> >make a full transition.
> >It's also doing free migration assessments through HP Services
> >and software and hardware trade-in rebates.
> >
> >HP's approach to retiring products will be closely watched,
> >especially as it reconciles its product line with that of the
> >newly acquired Compaq. Gartner analyst Paul McGuckin says this
> >process "might help them see what works and what doesn't when
> >they phase out [Compaq] Tru64" Unix machines.
> >
> >Virginia International Terminals is taking HP up on its offers.
> >VIT manages Virginia's shipping ports, using four e3000 servers
> >to track 1 million containers annually along the state's
> >shoreline. When HP said it was discontinuing the e3000, "it sent
> >a shockwave through our organization," says Clark Farabaugh,
> >VIT's assistant IT director. VIT took advantage of HP's loaner
> >program to begin migrating its container-management apps to
> >HP-UX, scuttle its old e3000 Turbo Image database, and adopt the
> >more Web-friendly Oracle 9i. - Larry Greenemeier
> >
> >For more, read:
> >Analyst: HP Cut Chip Orders From Intel By 50%
>
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> >Fiorina: HP To Achieve Cost Cuts Ahead Of Schedule
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