Denys says:

> Let me just state that we should never urge HP (or anyone) to promote the
HP
> e3000 as so much superior to (insert currently hated OS name here.)

Is this just a little bit presumptive?  How would consumer products ever get
advertised?

It seems to be a time-honored tradition of showing superiority by knocking
your competition.

BTW, thread-silliness should be an OT all it's own!!

Al Karman
IT Consultant
US Freightways
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-----Original Message-----
From: Denys Beauchemin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 3:20 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Slogan


It is my belief this thread has now fallen into the "silly area."

Let me just state that we should never urge HP (or anyone) to promote the HP
e3000 as so much superior to (insert currently hated OS name here.)  That is
entirely counter-productive.

One of the main reasons MPE is so stable is that it doesn't do much and it
runs
on only one box made by the same company as the OS.  Before you get in a
tizzy
about that last statement consider this.  When was the last time you
installed
a scanner, or a camera or a 21 inch monitor connected to 64MB SDRAM nVidia
based graphics card on your HP e3000? It also currently does not support
Ultra
SCSI-3, or LVD SCSI, or USB or Fibre Channel, or anything faster than
100-BaseTx.

NT, UNIX, Mac and Linux support some or all of these things and many more
besides.  That is large part why they are sometimes unstable.

Hardware-wise the HP e3000 is fast becoming antiquated and as I said, it
doesn't do much.

But what it does do, it does very well.

So, instead of pissing on the other platforms, consider this:  what is
important for the HP 3000, sorry e3000, is that it be able to co-exist with
these other platforms.  Because of this, in the heterogeneous enterprise,
the
HP e3000 is no longer an island of proprietary applications, unreachable
from
other platforms.  Instead it can now be viewed as the stable, dependable
platform readily accessible from other environments and on which core
applications can run in almost total security.

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Karman, Al [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Wednesday, August 09, 2000 2:46 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: Slogan

How about -

<< HP logo >>
....this is your brain

<<Windows NT logo >>
....this is your brain on drugs.


Al Karman
IT Consultant
US Freightways
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Christensen [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 2:43 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Slogan


How about;

You make the call
Heaven - HP3000
Hell - NT/UNIX



Paul D. Christensen
PC Enterprises Inc.
Osakis MN