Hello Friends:

Ron Horner asked:

"I received a invitation to attend a "HP3000 Strategic Customer Forum".  By
the looks of this thing, is where members of HP attend to get feedback from
the masses.  I'd like to go, but I just wondering what I should expect.
I'm hoping that it's going to be a positive experience."

Where it's not positive, it will be honest. HP's opening up the feedback
process to customers who aren't in the select Customer Advisory Council of
previous years.  From our October FlashPaper, just mailed yesterday:

HP takes its 3000 show on the road next month.

The HP 3000 division has built its rebound on the strength of customer
contact, and CSY is taking its message to customers with a road show
beginning November 2. The presentations will feature an all-day format with
lunch included at seven North American cities. Speakers include division
general manager Harry Sterling, R&D chief Winston Prather, 3000 channel
advocate Art Garcia, 3000 growth project lab manager Dave Wilde and lab
section manager Jim Sartain. Prather said the meetings were designed around
the concept of bringing key 3000 customers to the CSY labs in a Customer
Advisory Council meeting, usually held once a year to help CSY get input on
products and strategy. The tour takes the CAC on  the road to Toronto on
Nov. 2, Elk Grove, Ill. near Chicago on Nov. 5, Paramus, N.J. near New York
on November 6, returns to Cupertino on November 12, then on to Seattle on
Nov. 16 before wrapping up in Dallas on Nov. 17. Contact the HP sales
offices in those cities - where the presentations will be held - for
details on how to attend. It's one way to get a high-level presentation
from HP for executives in your company who may want to hear about HP's
renewed devotion to the 3000 first-hand.

Ron Seybold, Editor In Chief
The 3000 NewsWire
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