Mr. Lancaster says:

"For several years running, Amisys was the top reseller of 3000's followed
by SGA/Ecometry and, presumably, Summit.  Additionally, Amisys was the
application environment *most* pushing the top end of the 3000 product
line.  Well, Amisys is mostly dead, having gambled and lost on the
Amisys/Open product, and haven't done much new business for at least two
years now."


And I say, that's just the point...hp left the selling of the 3k to other
folks.  Had hp kept on pushing (read, selling/marketing) the 3k as  the
viable/reliable solution that it is (as they did many years ago) instead of
trying to kill it off, it would have been installed in many more sites
across the world, and have many more third part software packages available
to run on it (MPE).

A fine illustration of a company successfully
manufacturing/marketing/selling a proprietary OS box is IBM and their AS400.


Ray Shahan

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