> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denys Beauchemin
> > Tom wrote in part:
> > [...]
> > The fact that what you buy --today-- will have enough "horsepower" to meet your
> > needs --three to five years down the road-- is what I'm talkging about
> > [...]

> I would also state that anyone who buys computers nowadays, spending
> money to make sure the machine will meet the needs for 3 to 5 years is
> not using the funds properly.  It would be better to buy a machine to
> meet your current and 12 months needs and then simply replace it with
> another one the following year or so.

That isn't quite what I meant -- people were buying HP3000's sized to meet today's needs [and any anticipated growth for the next year as you suggest] but they were finding that after that year was up, the "current" system still had capacity to spare.  "just because it's been a year" is hardly a business-case to make for buying "new stuff".  Even if after that year they actually grew enough to make the system seem sluggish, the systems were often upgradable with newer/faster processors and the like for less than a comparable "new" system, so again the result is "no sale" [of a "new" system]

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