Duane, Birket, and Svein all posted on this subject:
 
>>Duane - Last summer I was on a roundtable in Stuttgart. One of the
>>panelists was from a company that had implemented the first copy of SAP on
>>an HP3000. SAP and HP came to his company and cancelled their plans for
>>rolling out SAP on 130+ sites round the world. HP paid for UNIX training
>>and a sweet deal on the 130 Unix boxes to replace the HP3000's.
 
>This is a good example of HP doing some anti-recruiting ;-(
 
>It sure would be good to hear what HP has to say about this. From this
>discription it looks like HP/SAP had an agenda and the 3000 wasn't on it.
 
Grrrrrr......  Note especially from above by Birket a key phrase:
 
".....a company that had implemented the first copy of SAP on
an HP3000";  i.e.:  past tense....  HP should be trying to bring
*more* world-class applications to the 3000;  and here they
are getting rid of a major package *THAT WAS ALREADY
RUNNING* ?!?!.  Perceived lack of strategic support for the
3000 at the HP corporate level is bad enough, but this sounds
like deliberate, active DE-marketing to a customer that *wanted*
to stay on the 3000 (since from everything I hear implementing
SAP on any platform is non-trivial, I assume this company didn't
go through the implementation exercise just for the fun of it)......
 
Like I said,  grrrrrr....  :-((
 
I think HP World - Anaheim may be a watershed for the long-
term strategic future of the 3000.  Pay close attention to what
senior HP executives above CSY say in their presentations.....
 
Ken Sletten