Randy,

I too in my 15 years of data processing have seen the below take place, and
it always amazes me how much money a company will spend on "gravy" instead
of the "meat and potatoes".  A swing back towards sanity would be very nice
- and welcome.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Keefer [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 9:03 AM
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> Subject:      Re: HP3000's Future?
>
> Thank you all.  I've gotten many responses.  All positive.  It's great to
> see that there are lots and lots of us e3000 lovers out there.  I have a
> son
> who is in college and I have shown him the e3000 and he asked "where's the
> graphics....where's the icons?"  Then I told him a story of a recent
> company
> I worked for:  They worked for 6 years and $7million to take ONE
> application
> off of the e3000 and make it client-server with pretty screens and
> flushing
> toilets (complete with sound effects).  After this effort, the system was
> installed and ran at 1/2 the speed of the e3000, crashed often, corrupted
> data, and was a nightmare to maintain and create new reports from.  They
> had
> a staff of 15 people for this one application, and 13 500Mhz servers for
> 50
> users.  The e3000 has a total staff of 3 for all of its applications and
> operations, and is a Series 967 (37Mhz) and supports 200+ users.  This
> company spent more money on the steal & glass cabinets to hold the servers
> than it would cost to completely replace the e3000 and all of its
> periferals.  My son now has a much greater appreciation for the e3000.  He
> understands that companies don't run on icons and pretty click boxes.
> They
> run on solid data processing performance.  That has been the HP3000 for 25
> years.