Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tiamat!quintro!reb From: reb@quintro.uucp (Roger E. Benz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: ADUS conference news Message-ID: <1990Oct17.181313.7970@quintro.uucp> Date: 17 Oct 90 18:13:13 GMT References: <901015.16343798.030626@RMC.CP6> <1990Oct16.064450.2850@alphalpha.com> Reply-To: reb@quintro.UUCP (Roger E. Benz) Organization: none Lines: 34 In article <1990Oct16.064450.2850@alphalpha.com> nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) writes: >In article <901015.16343798.030626@RMC.CP6> DCS05@RMC.CA writes: >>OSF-1 would not run on these platforms. Supposedly there are huge financial >>costs involved in porting to the older (no - not older, current!) product >Ha, ha. I very strongly suspect that OSF/1 will be running on at least >some of the DN machines before it runs on the HP ones - internally at >Apollo at least. This is a nonsense decision. I give it about a >quarter before they change their minds. The only question is whether >anyone will be listening when they do. > >>HP's perrogative - this is a free enterprise system. They will have to >>live with the results. In our case that will probably mean the >>cancellation of all DN product purchases. We will look at the 400 series >Exactly. Why would you buy a machine that has been announced as having >only one more software release left for the rest of eternity? When >they see what this does to the sales figures for the DNxxx maybe someone >will wake up. > >Well. Now we know one thing for sure. HP didn't buy Apollo for the >market share! A question I have is why would anyone buy a new DNXXXX machine? The new 9000 series machines are cheaper and more upgradable then any DN series machine. Even with some upgrades its cheaper to buy new 9000 machine than to upgrade to DN5500's. I also wonder is HP going to supply OSF/1 on older 9000 series machines (3xx)? -- Roger E. Benz Glenayre/Quintron Phone = (217) 223-3211 One Quintron Way Quincy, IL UUCP: tiamat!quintro!reb@uunet or quintro!reb@lll-winken