Re:

> However, I would like to point out one thing.  Client Systems (dba Phoenix/3000), I believe, is the
> sole authorized distributor or USED HP 3000's in the US... not, as Stan Sieler put it... "Client
> Systems is the only official HP 3000 distributor for the US (and Canada?).".

Quoting the 3000NewsWire ("FlashPaper", and also heard at HP WORLD '99):

   The 3000 division settled on a single distributor for all of North America.
   [...] the HP 3000 division (CSY) selected Client Systems, LLC as the sole company that
   will handle up to 80 percent of all new HP 3000 sales in North America.
   [...]
   This means that all HP 3000 resellers in North America will now receive their systems
   from Client Systems [...]

(As for used HP 3000s, the article goes on to mention that Client Systems' Phoenix 3000
is the authorized distributor.)

So...new *and* used: essentially controlled through Client Systems.


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> There will continue to be a variety of resellers throughout the US and Canada of new systems as long as
> HP holds to the current marketing strategy and organization.

Yep...all getting new machines through Client Systems, apparently.  (I'd assume that "up to 80
percent" means that HP will continue to sell/ship some systems directly.)

> As for the quality of the site.  I think that remains to be seen.  I don't believe that Client Systems
> anticipated the volume of hits that they received at 3KWorld.  This miscalculation did enormous damage
> to the system... to the content... and to the perceptions that people have about the portal itself.  I

Interesting...I hadn't noticed any load problem.

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