Or, if they are going to crip the CPU, at least drop the price of
the initial system so low that it competes with an off the shelf Dell
server with SQL-server for 100 users.

Richard

Chris Goodey wrote:
>
> Reliability, price and performance.
>
> Of course, they should stop crippling the low-end
> chips so as to be more competitive with Wintel platforms.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Ryan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 11:42 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Expensive RDBM Systems (Oracle)
>
> ,snip>.
>
> A return question for you:
>
> What features in MPE/Image do you see as so compelling that they would
> convince a startup CIO to select the 3000 as his platform?

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