At 09:43 AM 8/28/02 -0500, you wrote:
>That would be incorrect.  Support revenues never went to CSY and so never
>affected the HP 3000 directly.  What did hurt the 3000 in recent years was
>the black-market reselling of boxes with larger user licenses and the
>illegal transformation of HP 9000 into HP 3000s.

I'm not so sure about this, Denys.  IBM has managed to keep the AS400
thriving despite a HUGE network of "non-authorized" or "black
market"resellers, and I'm sure they have had to face these same issues.

This reminds me a little bit of my years working for one of the automobile
manufacturers...some hated used car dealers because they didn't think that
anyone should to be able to buy a used car.  If only they could force
everyone to buy new.....wouldn't that be nice for them.  But how
unrealistic for a number of reasons.

John Lee
Vaske Computer Solutions
Authorized and non-authorized reseller

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