Congratulations, Hewlett-Packard!
 
Evan Rudderow has provided a quick and efficient indexing service
into the maze of advertising hype.  His timely post on the HP3000-L
brought all of us directly into the jewels of the Crown.
 
The new HP 3000 ad (from Hewlett-Packard itself!) is so good that
I feel compelled to reproduce its text again (even though Evan
already did).  Repetition, after all, is what it's all about:
 
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If your company's survival depends on system availability,
the HP 3000 is the one to rely on.
 
What computer system do you have?
 
The HP 3000 delivers 99.9% uptime.  In fact, the latest Datapro User
Survey of midrange systems ranked the HP 3000 # 1 in system reliability
ahead of Stratus, Tandem and everybody else.
 
If the business decisions are yours, the computer system should be
ours.
 
Hewlett-Packard Computer Systems
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Can we get reprints of this ad so we can send them to our thousands
of customers worldwide?  They would appreciate the opportunity to
show off to their bosses, whose ill-advised management directives
may be causing them grief.
 
On the subject of ads, I would like to share with you my  latest ad,
which I am just polishing up on my Macintosh.  This ad contains
about 90% IMAGE/SQL & HP 3000 & MPE/iX & RISC (and some
10% Adager).  I have taken the liberty of clipping off the 10% Adager-
specific stuff about jumbo dataset support.
 
In my new series of Adager ads, I am having a lot of fun mentioning
the many good things that IMAGE/SQL and the HP 3000 have to offer.
I understand that HP cannot (or will not) speak about Oracle, Sybase,
Informix, and others as "average database servers" and I take particular
pleasure in raising some vital issues that they cannot answer but
that IMAGE/SQL answers right on the dot: day-to-day reliability,
reasonable cost (this one cannot be stressed enough: REASONABLE
COST), no need to constantly fiddle with the damned thing just to
keep it up, no flakey transitions from one release to the next, etc.
 
Here is the 90% non-Adager part of the ad:
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Thousands of concurrent usersQ on-line as well as batchQcan now
access terabytes with IMAGE/SQL databases on HP 3000 computers.
 
Yes: millions of megabytes.
 
How? With Jumbo Datasets, which can now hold much more than
the previous limit of four gigabytes (four thousand megabytes)
per dataset.
 
Once again, IMAGE/SQL (Hewlett-PackardUs award-winning
database management system) leads the way with the open Posix
capabilities of MPE/iX on the high-availability (and fast) RISC
HP3000 architecture.
 
Sheer, massive quantities are not enough, though. With IMAGE/SQL,
you also get day-to-day reliability. And you do not have to pay
a kingUs ransom just to barely keep up with the needs of your business.
You do not have to spend your time and attention constantly
fiddling with your computer system. And you enjoy rock-solid
stability from one version to the next.
 
Thanks to Hewlett-Packard, you get all of thisQand moreQwith
its IMAGE/SQL DBMS. Pity your friends who are forced by
peer pressure (or by ill-advised management directives) to waste
their lives fighting with average database servers, operating systems,
and hardware.
 
... Adager stuff about jumbo dataset support...
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HP: You have thousands of loyal members of the worldwide HP 3000
community standing by to disperse your message to the four corners
of this Earth.  No other computer platform can even begin to dream
of such force.  Just keep your creative people creating, designing,
and publishing.  (And, of course, don't forget to continue pushing
ahead the hardware and software envelopes of the HP 3000...)
 
Saludos cordiales,
 
Alfredo
 
 
F. Alfredo Rego
Adager Laboratories
Sun Valley, Idaho Q U.S.A.