Gavin writes:

> > Um, is something missing here? Those of you actually doing this kind of
>  > with the 3000, is this something that could be useful?
>
>  [PR about HP Domain FoundationTools, HP Domain FoundationWare, and
>   third-party (Developer's Edge partner) products deleted]
>
>  Personally I think it's a good thing that the HP3000 is smart enough to
>  have nothing to do with this :-)
>
>  A loosely cobbled together collection of 3rd-party tools and HP middleware
>  glue designed to make you develop proprietary applications that can only
>  run on HP-UX and Windows NT?  Which has a snowball's chance in hell of
>  being supported (or even remembered) a few years from now?
>
>  Experience has shown that the best way to deal with such things is to run
>  away.  Terribly fast.
>
>  G. (At home sick today.  Blech.)

Gavin's comments strongly indicate that even a person who's sick and half
delirious can still speak profound truths.

Gavin is dead right: being on the leading edge of buzzwords will kill your
company and waste money faster than anything else that you might do. The track
record for these kinds of application development environments has been
miserable. Large projects that use the newest and shiniest technologies
virtually never succeed; small projects that use tried-and-tested, simple
tools at least have a chance.

Wirt Atmar