I should have said a little more about Harry Sterlings speech.  He announced
a 30% year-on-year performance increase, the lower cost which Ron mentioned
(I should never try to compete with him in reporting :-) and a specific push
in the following markets:
  Airlines
  Credit Unions
  Manufacturing
  Health Care
  Mail Order
He had a whole collection of quotes by sizable customers about how they depend
on the 3000 and mentioned the ad campaign.  He also had the following quotes
from the media:

From CNN: "...Nothing looking loser like about Intel at all.  The stock up very
  strongly.  Had been up as much as 2 points at one point during that session.
  That on reports the Hewlett Packard company has agreed to use Intel's Merced
  chip in its 3000 line of business computer."

From the Wall St. Journal:  "For big companies that rely on a 3000 to run their
  business, being on the latest and greatest isn't always the best thing ..."

From CNETNEW.COM: "The HP3000 line is used  byh customers as powerful back end
  servers to run demanding database applications."

From InformationWeek:  "The move extends the life of the 3000 line, which
  surpasses even UNIX in high end functionality features for online transaction
  processing applications."

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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We (he and Halmos) share a philosophy about linear algebra: we think
basis-free, we write basis-free , but when the chips are down we close the
office door and compute with matrices like fury.
                        -- Kaplansky, Irving