Sorry, Wirt,  my mouse button change your name during spell check :)


And I couldn't agree more Writ

-----Original Message-----
From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 9:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Stumbling at the Altar


John Clogg writes:

> I wonder if the author of that commentary also regards the IBM S/390 as a
>  40-year-old fossil simply because of its compatibility with OS/360.  Just
as
>  a S/390 is hardly the same product as a S/360-30, the N-class is not the
>  same product as a Series III.  It's that kind of ignorance that makes
>  selling the HP e3000 so difficult.  The difference, of course, is that
IBM
>  actually makes an effort to inform its potential customers.

While Larry Barnes writes:

>  I would reclassify the e3000 as a living,
>  functional, Dinosaur, not a fossil (at least for the next 5 years).

It's equally important to note that large lumbering, clumsy dinosaurs have a
tendency to evolve into magnificiently graceful swans when giant,
earth-shattering rocks fall onto their worlds, as they sometimes do in
mid-November.

While everyone is focussing on death as being part of the natural life
cycle,
that's a rather parochial, self-centered view. Life just doesn't give up
that
easily.

Wirt Atmar

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