Regarding:

"The HP 3000 is based on a 25-year old architecture with correspondingly
dated performance."

Twenty-five year old architecture?  What about RISC?  Remember when HP
announced their development of RISC processors?  The press and the industry
referred to it as RISCy business and made comments about how HP was going
way out on a limb and that by gambling on RISC HP was RISCing its demise.
Wasn't the HP3000 (and its MPE/XL OS) the first major RISC implementation?
It wasn't but a decade ago that the HP3000's implementation on RISC was at
the forefront of technology.

It sure sounds like those consultants are (to put it as kindly as possible)
incredibly uninformed and either were completely unsuccessful in
researching the HP3000 or (shudder at the thought) failed to perform ANY
research.

I presume your legal department has been informed of this blatent error and
has as its response requested that you provide them a brief, one page or so
history of the HP3000 to be used in justifying withholding payment of
consulting fees.

John
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John Korb                            email: [log in to unmask]
Innovative Software Solutions, Inc.

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