On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 23:13:32 -0500, Ted Ashton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:


>  And more importantely, for the extra money, you get a whole lot
>higher-quality machine.

Nope .... same quality.

>HP has put in a lot of time to make sure that a disc
>drive hooked to a 3000 works right, and I, for one, am *not* interested in
>lowering the 3000 prices to be the same as the 9000 if that implies that my
>3000 is going to need the care and have the problems that a 9000 would.
>

It wouldn't imply that at all. Those boxes come off the same assembly
line, as do their peripherals. HP9000 hardware doesn't fail more or
less often than 3000 hardware. It's the OS that fails so much more.

Us UNIX users are looking ahead to when HP makes IA-64-based
workstations, that can run either NT or HP-UX. (Sound familiar?). I
stressed to the HP management people at Interworks that we will be
watching verrrry closely to see if they do differential pricing on
that hardware like they have done with 3000/9000 hardware. Of course
it was all "yes we are looking very hard at that issue" which is about
the answer I was expecting.
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Mark Landin                   "For anyone who was never good at
T. D. Williamson, Inc.         anything, technology has been a
UNIX Sys. Admin                real boon" --- my mom