Hello Friends:

So Cort Directions may not have 3000 plans beyond the Year 2000. CSY does,
and its plans include just about a ten-fold increase in HP 3000 performance.

It only happened in a few seconds of Winston Prather's talk on the State of
the HP 3000, but attendees at IPROF saw a slide that showed an HP 3000 with
a performance rating of about 250.0, set for release in the Year 2005.
Today's most powerful HP 3000, the 997/500, offers about a 26.2 rating. The
slide has specific product names underneath each bar representing steps
along the way, about one product to a year between now and then.

HP is planning release of 18Gb drives for the 3000. CSY's 64-bit team
members said that their work, which won't make it into the 6.0 release,
will make 1-terabyte files possible -- although nobody quite knows how long
it might take to copy something that big, or how to edit it.

CSY's Roy Breslawski also promised improvement on the 3000 upgrade pricing
issue, with an announcement in the next two weeks. "We need to address
this," Breslawski said at the Management Roundtable. "I agree completely."

Full Java/iX support, and DNS services for MPE/iX, fully supported, were
also part of the 6.0 announcements on IPROF's first day. Confidence is
running high here.

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