Mike wrote:

> This is not to say that the 3000 is "doomed" especially given its
> ability to overcome Y2K issues. But I do believe that it is "sunset
> technology" due to the proprietary-ness of the operating system.
> Existing businesses will continue to benefit from it while newer
> business will opt for the UNIX / NT / Linux solution.

This is just the type of attitude and response that Interex and HP need
to work hard at overcoming.

I do not believe, even for a minute, that the HP3000 is "sunset
technology" - nor do I agree that newer businesses will opt for the UNIX
/ NT / Linux solutions.

I believe that the 3000 has adequately proven its' ability to change
with the times ("Classic" to PA-RISC and now to IA-64).  In addition, HP
has adequately implemented POSIX within MPE (and IMHO done a better,
more thorough job than any of the other vendors with which I have had to
deal!).  Through all of the changes, the 3000 continues to outperform
virtually every platform around.  In addition, it continues to be
enhanced and marketed (albeit, not as it should be).  It continues to
stay stable and easy to maintain.

It has yet to be proven to me that the UNIX platform is as versatile or
as stable as the HP 3000.  In addition, each of the UNIX flavors that I
have been associated with has had so many quirks that they may as well
be considered "proprietary".

As for Windows NT - it's about as proprietary an operating system as you
can get.  Okay, so you can get a great deal of canned software off the
shelf.  However, for most businesses of any size, the canned software
just won't cut it or has to be tweaked in so many ways that it takes a
specialist just to understand it.  Just because a platform has a
tremendous number of users doesn't make it the right choice for every
installation.

As for Linux, I haven't had the pleasure to make its' acquaintence - so
I will simply bow out of that discussion and leave it to the Linux gurus
to debate.

Since Mike asked us to "go easy on him", I will simply state that I
think Mike is just plain off base on this one.

Glenn
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