PowerHouse and the future of the HP e3000

[Latimer, Richard]

Well said (6.07 ! ! )

Given IBM's support for Linux there are probably '400 customers out there
who would jump at the creation of an upgrade path to a later version.

chers
Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Witkopp, Richard [mailto:Richard.Witkopp@idt.com]
Sent: Friday, 16 November 2001 10:37 a.m.
To: 'powerh-l@lists.swau.edu'
Subject: RE: PowerHouse and the future of the HP e3000


Don't forget that creaky old AS400 version.

:-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Hoffman [mailto:wonicon@bigpond.net.au]
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 12:58 PM
> To: 'powerh-l@lists.swau.edu'
> Subject: Re: PowerHouse and the future of the HP e3000
> 
> 
> At 03:52 PM 14-11-01 -0500, Conrad wrote:
> 
> >Today's announcement from HP that it will begin advising customers to
> >transition from HP e3000 servers to other HP server 
> platforms over the next
> >five years might have come as a shock to some, and as a 
> long-expected move
> >by others. Perhaps the most important thing to remember at 
> this time, as the
> >late Douglas Adams tells us (describing what appears in big, 
> friendly,
> >letters on the cover of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the 
> Galaxy), is "Don't
> >Panic!".
> 
> Yes "Don't Panic!", take your time, make sure you do a full **cost**
> justification on the different suppliers, don't just roll over to HP,
> although the choices are limited.
> 
> Have I go this right, if VMS does not get ported, then there 
> will be only 2
> styles of Operating system available UNIX or WINDOZ?
> 
> With DEC, Compac, HP / Intel all in the same boat, how may different
> hardware manufacturers are left (IBM, SUN, HP/Intel) ????
> 
> Gee I like the number of choices avalable in this wonderful 
> global market.
> 
> Maybe now we can get a Linux version of Powerhouse? (free?)
> 
> Jeff
> 
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