To expand a little on Donna's comment regarding the Classics, I recall
that HP stated the products were Y2K compliant also on a Technology
Update, as well as the referenced webpage.

So any motivation for migrating to a newer platform would be elsewhere,
as in her example of "maintenance", or support (MPE/V reached end of
support life last fall), or cost of ownership (some have seen paybacks
of less than a year for similar performance levels) or technology (as in
industry standard networking, tools, C/S architectures, etc), or growth
path (iX boxes can offer geometric increase and connectivity over
Classics).  Politically, however, Y2K may allow for other appropriate
and maybe less highprofile causes to get done.

Just my $.02 worth.

Paul F. Dorius
eXegeSys, Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donna Garverick [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 16, 1998 10:32 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: year 2000 readiness
>
> Simonsen, Larry wrote:
>
> > our site in Australia is telling us that the sales people there are
> > saying that the classic machines are not year 2000 ready.  i checked
> > page
> > http://www.hp.com/wcso-support/30vinyear.html and it tells me the
> > Release 3P is ready.
>
> yes, that's true.
>
> > so i tried something, i called our local office
> > and they said that none of the classic systems where even going to
> be
> > tested for year 2000.  i pointed them to this page and it was dead
> > silence on the phone with a we will have to get back to you.
>
> oh like that's a big surprise :-)
>
> > what is the real scoop?  i have rebooted the classic system and
> entered
> > a date of 2/29/2000 and the system seems to work just fine.
> > am i the only one with this kind of a question/problem?
>
> the only one?  goodness, no but anyhow....
> the word i've got from hp is: the operating system 3p or better
> is y2k compliant.  hp, however, has/will not test or assure the
> readiness of the hardware.  we (longs) feel confident enough
> in the hardware, that we're continuing to process on micro gx's
> and xe's.  our series 42's (yes, 42's! :-) however, we're
> replacing *but* mostly because they are soooo old and they're
> becoming a maintenance headache.   hth         - d
>
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