> The opening key note speeches by Carly (live on tape) and Ann
> this morning
> made fairly dramatic references to the 3000.  Carly used it
> as an example of
> one of HP's big successes (in the past anyway).

What I heard was a prominent mention of the HP3000 and its stability
followed by "But it wasn't always that way.  In the early days the machine
was unreliable and the OS had bugs."  She then went on to explain how Lou
and Dave put together a team to fix things.  I took it as - "When HP-UX and
NT are 27 years old, they'll be stable too" and I can accept that.

> Ann specifically addressed
> the 3000 users in the audience, referring to the number of
> yellow "owl"
> shirts, and stating that if people want to get off of MPE
> that she wants to
> make sure that they at least stay on an HP platform, and if
> they want to
> stay on MPE forever, then that's fine too.
I don't think it would have hurt the lemmings if she would have said, "If
you want to move off or onto to MPE, we want to be your vendor of choice."

Right before this she said, "I'm not going out on a limb and say that the HP
e3000 is the wave of the future, but it is stable".

Oh, well.  More lessons for Ann I think.

Mark Wonsil
4M Enterprises, Inc.