The same presentation was hosted by Systems Technology Associates on
8/17/2000 in Long Beach CA.

While the presentation was interesting and I got to meet a couple of the
folks that for years I only knew by name, from this list, I kept having
this 'sinking' feeling of 'too little too late'.  I could not help but
think of presentations given years ago, in halls full of users, where the
'new offerings' would be minuscule in comparison to the current ones, but
would generate much more excitement.

While HP re-iterated their commitment to MPE/iX and taking it into the
IA-64 arena, it seemed, to me at least, that they allowed an 'out' path by
indicating that there would be 3-4 more PA-RISC chips that would be
concurrently available/released to the IA-64 that will also support MPE/iX.

The presentation of actual cases where the 3K was 'webified' had a tone,
again from my pessimistic point of view, of "Look what these customers were
able to do without much help from HP".

I hope that my perception is 'clouded' by the constant neglect that has
befallen this platform and that indeed there is some resurging willingness
on HP's part, to provide the HPe3000 with its deserved support and
promotion.

Regards
Paul (doubting) Christidis




Cerius Tchnology hosted a most excellent GEN/iX Seminar with presenters
from Hewlett Packard.

Just to give you a flavor of the Seminar, here are the Agenda Items:

HP e3000 Direction and Futures; the e3000's role in the Internet: Presented
by HP Division Management.

Data Center Management for e3000: Presented by HP Division Management.

Cost of Ownership: Presented by HP Division Managment.

Web enablement on the e3000 / Data Center Management breakouts: Presented
by HP Division Management.

We were given timely materials, such as white papers on "Enhancing the HP
e3000 User Interface" (GUI) and "Web Enabling Your HP e3000 Applications
and Data Access".

There was encouraging information, such as, half of the top 25 Fortune 500
Companies use HP e3000's.

MPE iX can do some pretty impressive things, and HP gave us some customer
success stories which are very encouraging. There is even wireless now,
directly to the HP e3000!

In the Web enablement break out, we shared some of the experiences we had
and shared various solutions amongst us.

It was excellent, too, because we were able to put some faces to those who
participate in HP3000-L.

GEN/iX Program Seminars are well worth attending and you should plan to do
so if they come to your area.