We had someone here say there were only about 350 HP3000 shops world
wide. Don't laugh they really said this in a meeting. Anyway, we asked
HP for some numbers on just the 3K and this is what they sent us. There
are currently about 20,000 3K shops with about 30,000 3Ks in the US
only. There is also a growth rate of about 10% per year. If this is a
dying machine, then a living machine must be instant world wide
saturation. This information is about a month old.

Rich

Providence Health Plans

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Greenup by way of Neal Kazmi <[log in to unmask]>
> [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 1998 1:08 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Cort and the HP3000
>
> Hi Joe:
>
> Saw your post on the 3000L.  Cort does not know what they are talking
> about.
> The HP3000 is not "declining rapidly".  There are sites moving off the
> platform but there are new sites coming onto the platform.  I would
> say the
> HP3000 installed base is growing sideways (flat growth) worse case.
>
> Frankly I was never a big fan of Cort as an HP3000 vendor.  They were
> VERY
> unknowledgeable everytime we were involved in one of there accounts.
> For
> example they made statements many times saying that MiniSoft 92 did
> not
> handle HP terminal emulation! Even though many of there users
> successfully
> used our connectivity software.
>
> Sales of MiniSoft products on the HP3000 platform continue to grow.
> We are
> very optimistic about the prospects for the future.  We have sold over
> 1,500
> HP3000 sites ODBC drivers since ODBC/32 was released July of 1997!  If
> this
> market was dying or declining rapidly we couldn't make that statement.
> We
> are so confident of the HP3000 market we recently launched an effort
> to
> bring a JDBC driver to the HP3000 providing Image database access from
> Java
> decision support tools.  We recently began shipping Javelin (A Java
> thin
> client) which allows FULL HP terminal emulation from within Internet
> Explorer or Netscape over an Internet or Intranet.
>
> Anyway sorry for the ranting on this topic.  The HP3000 is a great
> machine
> and we are investing heavily to deliver solutions for it.
>
> Take care Joe,
>
> Doug Greenup