At 05:49 PM 2/1/95 GMT, Eero Laurila wrote:
>  I've heard several people say that this seems to be the
>hp3000's second coming.  I sure hope so - however, it's not up to us,
>it's the computer market and customers who have the final word on it.
>
 
If the communications industry has their way, we'll have Internet services
coming in through the doors of our homes in the near future riding on other
basic services, such as voice phone.
 
And the HP3000 as an Internet server?  Why not!  What of the possibilities
of providing a reliable high volume transaction environment coupled with
Internet services - such as the World Wide Web?
 
Microsoft and IBM will have Mosaic on desktops cutting across a diverse
marketing spectrum on the Internet - and what will business need ?
 
A reliable high volume transaction machine on the Internet - the HP3000!
 
We had a catalog order company demo a catalog entry system using HP3000 last
week ... and guess what?  They will offer a Mosaic Internet order system
along with telephone operators slam dunking in phone orders from terminals.
 
And another thing...as long as HP3000's don't work like a Unix OS system,
this prevents hackers from using "bugs" in the Unix OS to gain entry into
the system.  Security by obscurity maybe leveraged in the case of the hp3k.
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Eric J. Schubert                 Administrative Information Services
Senior Data Base Analyst         University of Notre Dame, IN USA