In the current, on-line version of Infoworld, there's a review of IBM's
reworking of the AS/400e (notice the "e") that asks all the same questions
and comes to the same conclusions that this group does concerning the HP
e3000.

The URL for the several articles is:

     http://www.infoworld.com/news/as400.html

All of the articles in the section should be read, if for no other reason
that to develop a strong sense of envy for IBM's management. And perhaps even
more disturbing a statistic, if you use Inforworld's search engine* and type
in "AS/400", you're going to find at least a hundred articles scattered over
the last year in the magazine. If you type in the phrases "HP 3000", HP3000",
or "HP e3000", the equivalent number of articles for the same period is zero.

That's essentially the problem in nutshell.

Wirt Atmar

*The search engine is on Infoworld's home page: http://www.infoworld.com/