[geeks] Re: HP's squandering

[Gavin Hubbard]

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On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 01:19 PM, Eric Dittman wrote:
>> Are they discontinuing the HP-3000? Last I heard (which admittedly
>> was a while ago) it was still going strong.
>
> HP has announced end-of-life for MPE. The HP-3000 systems
> will no longer be manufactured, but they are just HP-9000
> derivatives.

Wow...There are a LOT of big HP3000s installed at banks and such.

-Dave
>>

Yep - there are a lot of really angry HP 3000 customers out there. After all the platform is over twenty years old now. To be fair HP is making an effort to transition the systems rather than just dropping them, but if it ain't broke etc. I don't know if Eric realises - but they _are_ going to stop manufacturing the e3000 hardware as well (more details on the HP website). 

They're also pulling a lot of crap with systems like the HP 3000 A-class machines. Although the systems are identical to the HP 9000 systems (only a firmware difference) they underclock the processors to around 25% e.g. an A500 with 440MHz PA-8500 runs at 110MHz in the equivalent e3000.

Regards,

Gavin