Marketing manager Christine Martino of the e3000 Commercial Systems Division (CSY) brought fresh news of the system’s inclusion in HP’s plans to Smith-Gardner users. The HP Garage Program, a source of no-down-payment, deferred repayment financing for dot-com startups, is now available to the S-G customers who use e3000s. At the time of her June 5 announcement, the program had been approved only about 72 hours for HP 3000s. Martino said the system had “been excluded” from the marquee program, designed to help companies pay for HP software and equipment when staring Internet businesses. Startup firms creating products or services to be primarily sold on the Internet qualify in general. But HP’s Web site and literature about the Garage mention only HP-UX and NT NetServers. Smith-Gardner sites, making the jump from catalog sales to Web sites, were a natural for the program, Martino said. Other HP 3000 customers will have to wait to get at Garage money, but at least the platform is being included in HP’s corporate plans built around its leading icon: the Garage.