Just got this as part of the HP e3000 Advisor newsletter (from our good
friend George Stachnick). I haven't seen this link posted yet, so figured I
should share it. (Forgive me if this is, in fact, a duplication.)

> Prather's perspective
> Winston Prather reflects on the HP 3000 announcement and looks
> toward the future.
> <http://www.hp.com/products1/mpeixservers/advisor/prather_nov01.html>

I doubt much of this was said in the webcast, and it contains info that
wasn't in the customer letter already posted. The tone is definitely
personal. Here's one snippet:

> From a business perspective, this decision was not frivolous in any
> way. Throughout its history, the HP e3000 has enjoyed strong
> community feeling - among customers as well as our ISVs. While HP
> management is very cognizant of this, we couldn't ignore the hard
> truth that an increasing number of customers were choosing other
> platforms. The HP e3000 simply wasn't strategic to a wide enough
> customer base to warrant the increasing costs of future MPE/iX
> development and support.

IMO, this helps make the argument for openMPE/openIMAGE, since being
"strategic to a wide enough customer base" becomes much easier with open
source.

(My $.02 -- insert std disclaimers.)

Patrick ... HP3000 user since 1983
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Patrick Santucci
HP e3000 Systems Administrator
Computer Operations Team Lead
Cornerstone Brands, Inc.

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