"Stigers, Greg [And]" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Going to cocacola.com, in one click on "about the company",...

Inspired by Greg's comments, I visited http://www.hp.com and
clicked on "HP Products" (a highly visible link at the very top),
which took me to http://www.hp.com/country/us/eng/products.htm (it
may take you to other URLs depending on your country and/or on
the cookies that HP's web site plants on your browser's data
structures :-)


HP's webmasters and webmistresses are doing a great job
at this high level in HP's website hierarchy in terms of
the HP 3000 (they don't know about "HP e3000" yet).

For instance:


     ENTERPRISE COMPUTING

       UNIX Solutions
       HP 3000: MPE/iX
       PC Servers: NetServer
       Workstations: Kayak, VISUALIZE
       ...
       Product Index

       (Unix is a little off alphabetically, but that's OK :-)


     SERVERS

       HP 3000: MPE/iX
       PC Servers: NetServer
       UNIX (HP-UX): HP 9000

       (Everything is perfectly alphabetical here :-)



I clicked on "Product Index" under "ENTERPRISE COMPUTING" and
got this at the top:


                    Products A-Z
                    #A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W X Y Z
                     #
                         100 Base-T LAN Adapter Family
                         1000Base-SX LAN Adaptor Card
                         100Base-T LAN Adapter for HP 3000
                         100VG-AnyLAN for HP 3000
                         918 LX/RX (HP 3000)
                         997, 1-8 Way (HP 3000)
                         9x9KS Precision Architecture Servers (HP 3000)

                         Back to the top
                    A
                         A-Class (HP 9000)
                         ActivePayments (VeriFone)
                         Advanced Server/9000
                         ALLBASE/SQL
                         ATM Product Family
                         Authorization Server (Praesidium)
                         Auto-port Aggregation Software
                         AutoRestart/iX (HP 3000)

                         Back to the top
                    B
                         BSC Link/iX (HP 3000)
                         Business Communications Server
                         Central Web Console

                         Back to the top


There is a fair mention of "HP 3000" throughout the index.  (Or was
the HP web server just doing it for me, because the HP cookies planted
onto my browser indicate that I like the HP 3000?  :-)


So, folks, we should be a bit patient, perhaps, because we might just
have some kind of a phase shift going on here (i.e., HP's Corporate
executives might be on the same wavelength as their web designers --
not to mention the CSY folks -- but their phases might be a bit off
and we should gently allow them to realign themselves :-)

Could it be that all our marketing-oriented talk has been filtered out
by HP's Corporate executives as just a bunch of BS?  Could it be that
some scientific and engineering talk will do the trick?


Stay tuned, so to speak,

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