in "Doing 95 on the road to NT", Denys Beauchemin said, and I believe
    he is correct:
>A lot of current UNIX users are moving from UNIX to WindowsNT.
>The migration has started and is in process now....WindowsNT has
>been slow coming, but it is coming inexorably.
 
Denys then went on to say,
>...MPE will then face its greatest threat to its very existance.
>It must adapt now or it too, will be left behind.
 
It seems to me that it is not MPE, but HP hardware, that should adapt.
The HP-UX propeller-heads (and their allies in HP management) seem to
be preventing it, but the best path for HP is to unify their systems
into ONE product line that will run MPE, HP-UX, and/or NT from the same
box, either switchable at bootup, or simultaneously in mutli-processors.
Until then, HP's claim to be an Open System Provider doesn't wash.
 
in "HP-Novell-SCO at UNIX Expo", Denys said,
    and again I think he is right:
>It seems the battle lines have been drawn, HP & Novell & SCO with
>Netware and UNIX vs DIGITAL and Microsoft with NT.
 
What Digital has recognized, and HP is yet to show it understands, I
would like to suggest, is that customers will gravitate to the system
that gives them the most reliable, cost-effective hardware, but only
if the best available software will run on it.
 
 
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Paul McArdle
TeleMar, Inc.