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Date: | Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:36:49 -0700 |
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> However, I would like to point out one thing. Client Systems (dba Phoenix/3000), I believe, is the
> sole authorized distributor or USED HP 3000's in the US... not, as Stan Sieler put it... "Client
> Systems is the only official HP 3000 distributor for the US (and Canada?).".
Quoting the 3000NewsWire ("FlashPaper", and also heard at HP WORLD '99):
The 3000 division settled on a single distributor for all of North America.
[...] the HP 3000 division (CSY) selected Client Systems, LLC as the sole company that
will handle up to 80 percent of all new HP 3000 sales in North America.
[...]
This means that all HP 3000 resellers in North America will now receive their systems
from Client Systems [...]
(As for used HP 3000s, the article goes on to mention that Client Systems' Phoenix 3000
is the authorized distributor.)
So...new *and* used: essentially controlled through Client Systems.
BTW, I recommend "The 3000 News Wire". Subscription info via: [log in to unmask]
> There will continue to be a variety of resellers throughout the US and Canada of new systems as long as
> HP holds to the current marketing strategy and organization.
Yep...all getting new machines through Client Systems, apparently. (I'd assume that "up to 80
percent" means that HP will continue to sell/ship some systems directly.)
> As for the quality of the site. I think that remains to be seen. I don't believe that Client Systems
> anticipated the volume of hits that they received at 3KWorld. This miscalculation did enormous damage
> to the system... to the content... and to the perceptions that people have about the portal itself. I
Interesting...I hadn't noticed any load problem.
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Stan Sieler [log in to unmask]
http://www.allegro.com/sieler/
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