> Re:
> 
> Has anyone taken HP up on their offer for the free conversion of
> their A or N class to an HP-UX server?  We probably won't go 
> this route....

i sure hope you don't, it might be known as a career-threatening
decision :-)

way back when...when a- and n-class systems were new-ish and (some)
folks had the blissful idea that moving from mpe to hp-ux was a piece
o'cake, hp's offer almost sorta kinda made sense.

but....a couple of thoughts....

- several people have already pointed out that in unix-land, those
boxes are (more-or-less) obsolete.
- that big honkin' mpe n-class?  it's a low-end, wheezy, sputtering
unix system.
- there's a radically different mind-set in many unix shops regarding
servers.  they're commodity items.  you get 'em...you burn through
their horsepower...and you replace them a few years down the road for
something even bigger yet.  very different from mpe shops, where we
tend to regard our servers as investments.  we'll take 7-10 years to
write the asset off.
- don't even think of 'server consolidation'.  single server/single app
is very much the reality in unix-land.

<sigh>       - d

Donna Garverick, HP-CSA   Sr. System Programmer
dgarverick -at- longs -dot- com
925-210-6631              Longs Drug Stores

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Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
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Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are.
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