At 02:28 PM 08/16/00, dsilva wrote:
><<    "PSST ... Carly we want to let the world in on your secret ...
>with  the HP
>e3000 your organization manages the manufacturing of over $20Billion of
>products>>
>
>       The systems you are talking about are a "web" of inconsistencies,
> hard to trace, hard to research, hard to manage, poorly documented, of
> very cumbersome design, full of holes, obsolete technologies and on and
> on, product of years of a mix of changing technologies and constant
> upward/task change and "promotions" of the very hp employees that
> designed these systems.  That is why HP is doing a lot of
> migrating.  That is why HP is about invent and change.  Because they have
> no choice, otherwise the giant will drop like a rock from within.

I entirely agree.  UNIX is a real nightmare.


Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
http://www.northtech.com