Jim,

> Well, we will soon be moving our accounting system off of the
> HP3000 and onto an NT server.  Why, you may ask?  Well, the old
> accounting system was not Y2K-compliant, and was about 10 years old.  So,
we
> did a software search and identified two packages that ran on the HP3K and
a couple
> that did not.  The HP3K packages were never in the running for one very
> disturbing reason:  The sales people for the first package blew us off
> when we tried to get more info, and the second one never returned our
> calls.

Hmmmmm - I wonder if these companies were publically identified, if they
would change their marketing tactics (or would a couple of salespeople
"learn the hard way", not to do that)...

Joe