Hi Roy,
    Just to reinforce your straw poll...

    We run *ONE* HP 3000 series 957 and receive *TWO* copies of the
Advisor...and both end up on my desk :)

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>>> Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]> 03/24/97 09:27am >>>
In message <v03007804af5892df5d35@[206.225.46.20]>, Ron Seybold
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>Hello Friends:
>
>Roy Brown asks if our definition of the HP Advisor's circulation is an
>assumption or not. Last year HP reported a 70,000 (or so) circulation. It's
>a figure that third parties get quoted when seeking a chance to get
>marketing materials included in the Advisor mailings. When HP says "Okay,"
>they then report that you need to send 70,000 pieces.

A quick and dirty straw poll amongst a few of our clients shows a poor
correlation between receiving the Advisor and having HP3000s. A client
with 2 HP3000s recalls 'having seen an Advisor once at a vendor's
offices...'. Another, also with 2 HPs, gets 1 copy. While a third client
with 1 HP3000 regularly gets 2 copies....

Interestingly though, overall that's 6 copies and 6 machines, including
us. Which it needs to be if 65,000 is to be true both for the Advisor's
circulation and for the installed base....
>
>The important part is that the 3000 *business* appears to be growing -- if
>breaking quota in the last five quarters is a fair indicator. Certainly the
>business is exceeding *HP's* expectations...

As an HP3000-specific vendor, we are more than encouraged by this. Do we
know what the quotas were?

Elsewhere in the ng, George Stachnik reckons that half the HP3000
installed base has one or more HP9000s too.

That implies George has an idea of how big the installed base *is*. So
how about an update George?

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