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Fwd: Goodbye, e3000
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Jerry Fochtman <[log in to unmask]>
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Jerry Fochtman <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 12 Jun 2002 06:17:10 -0500
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In today's e-mail update from InformationWeek:

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>- TODAY'S HEADLINES -
>** Popular HP Server Bid Farewell
>** Force Hospitals To Take IT Medicine--Advocacy Group
>** Siemens Takes Collaboration To The Net
>** E-Learner SmartForce Buying SkillSoft
>** TECH STOCKS: Oof! Where's The Pepto?

/snip

>- TOP STORIES -
>
>** Popular HP Server Bid Farewell
>
>Hewlett-Packard is enticing owners of its once-popular,
>now-doomed e3000 servers to buy HP-UX or Linux systems. The most
>likely migration path will be to HP 9000 servers running HP-UX,
>although buyers could also move to Intel-based ProLiant servers.
>HP is using a number of migration programs, including one that
>provides e3000 customers with "loaner" HP 9000s until they can
>make a full transition.
>It's also doing free migration assessments through HP Services
>and software and hardware trade-in rebates.
>
>HP's approach to retiring products will be closely watched,
>especially as it reconciles its product line with that of the
>newly acquired Compaq. Gartner analyst Paul McGuckin says this
>process "might help them see what works and what doesn't when
>they phase out [Compaq] Tru64" Unix machines.
>
>Virginia International Terminals is taking HP up on its offers.
>VIT manages Virginia's shipping ports, using four e3000 servers
>to track 1 million containers annually along the state's
>shoreline. When HP said it was discontinuing the e3000, "it sent
>a shockwave through our organization," says Clark Farabaugh,
>VIT's assistant IT director. VIT took advantage of HP's loaner
>program to begin migrating its container-management apps to
>HP-UX, scuttle its old e3000 Turbo Image database, and adopt the
>more Web-friendly Oracle 9i. - Larry Greenemeier
>
>For more, read:
>Analyst: HP Cut Chip Orders From Intel By 50%
><http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=hHe60BcY8H0V20Bd720AN>informationweek.com/story/IWK20020610S0001
>
>Fiorina: HP To Achieve Cost Cuts Ahead Of Schedule
><http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=hHe60BcY8H0V20Bdnc0A6>informationweek.com/story/IWK20020604S0001

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