> But Jerry, perhaps the more important issue for HP CSY marketing is > how many current 3000 customers are considering and/or are migrating to > the AS/400 because IBM is seen as committed to it, where as HP is not > understood as commited to the 3000? > > ([log in to unmask]) Isn't it seen as significant that HP replaced their big blue world-wide network hosts with HP3000s ... not HP9000s? I'm in the market for a 9x9 to replace our woefully overloaded 957 and local HP was only too happy to spend time with me assessing configuration and upgrade options ... and only quite late in the piece did I get a sheepish " .... you're probably not going to be excited about this, but for the sake of investment protection, you might want to know that we sell a conversion kit for 3000-to-9000 ... " FWIW, Ron (who already knew that but shudders at the thought ... whatta way to waste a good machine!) [log in to unmask]