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April 2000, Week 4

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Randy Keefer <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 28 Apr 2000 09:03:29 -0400
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Thank you all.  I've gotten many responses.  All positive.  It's great to
see that there are lots and lots of us e3000 lovers out there.  I have a son
who is in college and I have shown him the e3000 and he asked "where's the
graphics....where's the icons?"  Then I told him a story of a recent company
I worked for:  They worked for 6 years and $7million to take ONE application
off of the e3000 and make it client-server with pretty screens and flushing
toilets (complete with sound effects).  After this effort, the system was
installed and ran at 1/2 the speed of the e3000, crashed often, corrupted
data, and was a nightmare to maintain and create new reports from.  They had
a staff of 15 people for this one application, and 13 500Mhz servers for 50
users.  The e3000 has a total staff of 3 for all of its applications and
operations, and is a Series 967 (37Mhz) and supports 200+ users.  This
company spent more money on the steal & glass cabinets to hold the servers
than it would cost to completely replace the e3000 and all of its
periferals.  My son now has a much greater appreciation for the e3000.  He
understands that companies don't run on icons and pretty click boxes.  They
run on solid data processing performance.  That has been the HP3000 for 25
years.

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