Wirt sez with regard to a NY Times article on the future of business computing:

>This is exactly the same conclusion that Microsoft has come to independently
>regarding their next generation of products. You're not going to purchase
>them. Rather, you're going to pay for them as you use them, over the internet.

The "Information Utility" as it's now being called, or for us old-timers,
a "Service Bureau". HP is an early player in this with Open Skies. And, what
platform does Open Skies use? :-)

>The world's changing. And there's going to develop over the next five years
>an enormous opportunity for the establishment of centralized clusters of
>highly reliable commercial database engines.

Absolutely. We need to keep pushing to make the HP3000 play better in that
playground and I think we're starting to successfully show that it can. The
next big step is now within reach when there was some doubt just a few
short years ago.

Regards,


M. "Prepare for Warp, Mr. Sulu"