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While not portrayed in a very favourable light (IMHO), the 3000
announcements nevertheless made their way to c|net's NEWS.COM:

        The HP 3000 severs are part of a decades-old lineage of proprietary
        systems running the MPE/iX operating system. Earlier in the 1990s,
        HP had decided to let the HP 3000 line fade away, but the company
        changed its mind more than a year ago, Martino said. "Proprietary
        is not a dirty word in some places," she said.

        The updated HP 3000 line is likely to appeal to the existing
        customer base, which is about 70,000 to 100,000 strong, though
        probably not enough to pull many new sales, said Brad Day, an
        analyst at Giga Information Group. However, the 3000 line always
        will play second fiddle to the HP 9000 systems running HP-UX, HP's
        Unix operating system, he said.

The full article is at

      < http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,0-36001,00.html >

--Glenn