Having done my share of griping when I perceive that HP as
a Corporation has unwisely slighted the HP 3000, I now give
them an attaboy for some progress;  and helpfully point out
what I am sure was just an oversight.


First the "attaboy":

While some might not consider this a major news event, I
think it is a good sign:  In Dec 2000 HP Computer News
(Americas and Asia Pacific Region edition) we have:

On pages 44-47, two case studies of successful HP 3000 users
(City of Long Beach and Idaho State U.).  I thought these were
well done;  they speak for themselves.

But perhaps even more encouraging was a short paragraph in
the generic "Enterprise Storage" section......    oops.....:
"enterprise storage", in current HP-speak:   On page 41 you
can find a gem of a paragraph in the piece on the SureStore
XP48 disc array.  I quote this short paragraph in its entirety:

"The XP48 can be attached to open-system environments, such
as HP-UX, Microsoft Windows 2000/NT, Solaris, Linux, AIX,
Netware, and HP e3000, and many other operating systems.
The XP48 is designed to handle very large databases, data
warehousing applications, data center consolidation and data
mining applications for an e-services world."

I'm not going to even sotto voice complain about the 3000 being
listed last:  The fact that the 3000 was listed in a general HP
publication along with other "open-system" usual suspects is a
signal event.  Seems to me others could now pick up on this:
"HP says the HP e3000 is an open-system environment, on a
par with et. al."


Now:  The "oversight";  in same issue of HP Computer News:

In the piece on the Itanium family architecture on page 17,
there is a short paragraph that says:

"HP is committed to providing enterprise-wide solutions based
on IA-64 for UNIX, 64-bit Windows and Linux operating
systems."

Given Dr. Harry Sterling's public commitment to port MPE to
IA-64 at HPW a couple years ago, looks like the publishers
of HP Computer News inadvertently slipped up in this piece...
Hopefully they will correct this oversight in future issues...   :-)


Ken Sletten