First off, emphasize the 25 year track record that the HP3000 has.  How
is that for removing the fear of change?  If you can be running on a
machine that has Samba, DNS, Apache, FTP, Mail, etc.; and it has been
around for 25 years and continues to be backward compatible, and
continues to provide state of the art solutions, and does all of this
without the daily/weekly/monthly reboots......... hmm, sounds a little
like marketing hype.  Too good to be true, right?  The thing is that it
IS true and will continue to be true.  If you value your data, you will
value the HP3000!  (another bumpersticker??)

Kevin "just off of the cuff remarks" Newman

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Lee [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, September 11, 1998 8:35 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: TPC benchmarks, anyone?
>
> Although it goes unspoken, I think a major obstacle is the learning of
> a
> new operating system.  Unix and Windows NT seem to have a more
> "universal"
> sound to them and some decision makers like familiarity (or perhaps
> fear
> change).  Since I sell HP 3000 hardware, I'm interested in hearing
> from the
> list how to overcome that fear of change, or fear of "proprietary"
> operating system.
>
> John Lee
> Vaske Computer Solutions
>