<After K Tracy Pierce>
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> This makes e-services (formerly known as time-sharing) a thing of today,
> rather than a razzle-dazzle buzzword describing the "even better" future.
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            Apps-on-Tap will be the only way to fly in the very near future
and the
        HP3000 will be right in the middle of it. Our company designs
Library
        systems (city/state public and college/university) and this is
basically
        the tact we have taken for three plus years. A single user sitting
at a
        "browser" in a library(or at home) can access one or a 100 other
libraries
        simultaneoulsy searching via key word for propspective titles and/or
        authors. They aren't concerned with "where", only whether they want
to
        pick up the "books" at their physical local library or have them
mailed to
        an address.

            I found an article in the Aug. 23, '99 editon of Network World
by Frank
        Dzubeck in the column "Industry Commentary" titled "Application
Service
        Providers: An Old Idea Made New" on page 49 that I thought covered
the
        subject fairly well.

        "In addition, the midtier market is the home territory of the IBM
AS/400
         and S/390, as well as Sun, Hewlett-Packard and Compaq/ DEC
machines.
         These will be the computing platforms of the ASP, not Wintel, and
the
         LAN-based servers will be downgraded to office application devices.
         Access to the ASP will be via the Web for extranet applications and
a
         virtual private network (VPN) for Intranet applications."

        http://www.nwfusion.com/archive/1999b/0823dzubeck.html

         A well thought out product(i.e HP3000) will always be
        in style...(to coin a phrase).


                                            Eric Sand
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