I've changed my mind.  If anyone has anything to say about small systems
and whether they have any interest in them, please post it to this list.
It would be interesting to have a discussion on this issue, following up on
the discussions at IPROF, if only to let HP know that we are still interested.

The big hangup seems to be the cost of support, which for a developer with
subsystems such as COBOL, Fortran, etc. gets absolutely prohibitive.  It
seems to me that HP needs to take a leaf from Microsoft's book and give
some real support to small developers, providing them with development
systems with everything they need to produce software applications at a low
price.  Even if they make a loss on it, they can charge it off to
marketing, because it's the applications that will be selling the HP3000s.
Windows 95 would be nowhere if there hadn't been lots of readily available
applications for it.  The lack of applications is probably the biggest
reason why OS/2 can't compete.

So, who out there is interested in such a small development system?  If you
are, make a noise!

John D. Alleyn-Day
Alleyn-Day International
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