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From: thompson@PAN.SSEC.HONEYWELL.COM (John Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: re: HP Hype (new role for ADUS)
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Date: 1 May 91 15:41:30 GMT
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> My idea is that aHPollo should immediately offer every DN10k owner 
> a NO COST SWAP for an equivalent power and memory 700 series machine.
> I doubt this will happen, but if it doesn't, I am never, ever going
> to buy anything whatever with the HP name on it, no matter how
> good it might be.
Nice idea in the knee-jerk reaction category.  However, it won't help, even
if HP/Apollo offered it.  
Does all your Domain/OS software work on the new box?  
Will all your 3rd-party software work?  
Will it work in your network?
Do you want to learn to maintain a Hockey-Puck?

HP: We _NEED_ to have interoperability between the snakes and Domain/OS.
    We _NEED_ to have OSF in a working, stable state.
    We _NEED_ to have our vendors porint to OSF, not HP-UX.

    You _NEED_ our money and support.  Think what'll happen if all the
    Apollo people migrate to Suns, IBMs, etc.  You aren't making friends.


-- jt --
John Thompson       (I'M ENGAGED!!!!)
Honeywell, SSEC
Plymouth, MN  55441
thompson@pan.ssec.honeywell.com

A pessimist sees the tunnel.
An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel.
The realist sees the tunnel, the light at the end of the tunnel, 
and realizes that it's an oncoming train.