Hi all,

A number of HP e3000 customers have asked for more information on
the HP 9000 L3000.

The L3000 is a member of the HP 9000 L-Class Server family which
already contains the HP 9000 L1000 and L2000.  The HP 9000 L-Class
family is a lower, mid-range member of Hewlett-Packard's Unix
family of servers with up to 4 processors.  The L3000 supports the
higher frequency 550 MHz PA-8600 processor.

Within Hewlett-Packard we debated whether there would be some
confusion in using the suffix 3000 in naming a member of the
HP 9000 L-Class family.  We realized that there might be, but in
the end concluded that since our Unix brethren would always
be using the adjective HP 9000 prior to using the term
L3000 (i.e., HP 9000 L3000), that confusion would be minimal.
We also saw the value to the HP 9000 product line in maintaining
a clean naming convention (i.e., L1000, L2000, L3000). In
addition, our HP NetServer product line already had a member
in it for year or more that has used a 3000 suffix with minimal
confusion.

It might be useful to point our that Hewlett-Packard is working on
supporting new HP e3000 technology including the N-Class family which
we plan on introducing during the first calendar half of 2001 and a
new low end HP e3000 Server which we will probably introduce by the
end of the third calendar quarter of 2001.

Dave Snow
HP e3000 Platform Product Marketing Manager
Hewlett-Packard, CSY