Every large company I have worked for planned on replacing IT equipment
every three years.  This was done on a scheduled basis where one third of
the equipment was replaced each year.

That is until Y2K.  That is when IT departments had the perfect excuse to
upgrade systems to prepare for Y2K.  It is my opinion that a large factor in
the dot.com crash was caused by massive IT refreshing being done in
1998/1999.  Such that very few people needed to buy new equipment in early
2000.  The large manufacturers like HP (Compaq, Dell and IBM too) started to
report declines in sales.  As a result, the market made a slight adjustment.
Those investors with money vaporware internet companies decided to put their
money in things more solid; like gold.  Personally I wish I had more of mine
in Google.

Mark Ranft 
(612) 804-2774
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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 1:07 PM
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Subject: Re: How long???

To all;
Appreciate everyone's response.  I wondered if anyone is a aware of a 
"rule of thumb" that most would use for the average life that might 
be safely expected from a computer system?  For instance, how often 
should one plan to upgrade your computer systems?  Prior to HP 
foolish termination of the life of the HP 3000, what had been the 
normal practice for upgrading your HP 3000's?
Thanks,
Jeff

t 09:20 PM 2/6/2008, Mark Ranft wrote:
>Many of my clients are in the process of migrating.  A couple are settling
>in to homestead.
>
>My largest client has over thirty HP 3000 systems.  Most of these are
>N-Classes with a few large K-Class systems tossed in.  They are hard at
work
>trying to complete their migration.   The time and effort required to
>migrate will continue until at least 2011.  After that the systems will
>remain for historical purposes.
>
>Mark Ranft
>(612) 804-2774
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: OpenMPE Support Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Jeff
>Kubler
>Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 3:56 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: How long???
>
> >To all;
>
>Not a lot going on with this discussion group??
>What's the current status?
>What are home steaders on the HP 3000 saying about how long they
>might do home steading?
>Thanks,
>jeff
>
>
>Jeff Kubler
>Kubler Consulting, Inc.
>541-745-7457
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Jeff Kubler
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