Ted added: > > The future for the 3000 is not as a computing platform to > > rival Unix and Windows but as a component of business > > "appliance"/"ASP"/"Turn-key" solutions. One of the best > > examples is HP's Open Skies operation .... > You're never going to set a spiffy new Win98 box next to a > 3000 terminal and impress the non-techie boss that the 3000 > is the better box. To a considerable degree I expect that's true... *Unless* the "terminal" is an off-the-shelf PC running the pending graphics- capable new release of QCTerm. The advantages of that combination compared to the end-to-end complexity and drawbacks of stateless browser interfaces to back end servers for high-volume OLTP operations would seem to give the 3000 a competitive technical edge; as well as a chance to "impress" that non-techie boss... Whether or not and to what extent that might fly politically out there in the IT jungle is TBD... (no <plug>; I have zero financial interest in QCTerm).... Ken Sletten