Below are the results from the market research I did
on CD-ROM Drives and the HP 3000.  HP will use this input in its
future MPE/iX planning cycle.
 
I asked the following 3 questions to better understand how customers
are using CD-ROM technology with their HP 3000:
 
 
>For customers who currently have a CD-ROM drive(s) attached
>to your HP 3000 I am interested in learning what you are
>using them for.  What would you like to use them for?
 
>For customers who do NOT have a CD-ROM drive(s) attached to
>your HP 3000 do you see any future benefit that would lead
>you to use this technology?  If so, what would that be?
 
>I am interested in learning how customers who receive their
>MPE/iX documentation on CD are reading this documentation.
>Which technologies are you using?
 
 
I discovered the following key trends:
 
1) Most customers appear not to be using the HP CD Extensions for MPE/iX
   because of its incompatibility with Windows.  The CD Extensions enables
   PC clients to share a CD-ROM Drive mounted on the HP 3000 for reading
   MPE/iX documentation, etc.
 
2) Most customers appear to have their CD-ROM Drives mounted sharable
   on an Intel-based PC Server.  Jim Wowchuk commented, " I can't see
   much benefit as centralized server support to PC clients, given the cost,
   features and availability of smaller PC-based servers."
 
3) Customers are running Novell, NT, WFW, or OS/2 on their PC Servers.
 
 
Thanks for all your input on behalf of HP.
 
Best regards, Kriss Rant / CSY Marketing / [log in to unmask]