HP already saw the "true value of MPE". It allowed them to sell migration
consultancy and services by the man-year. And everyone knows that the most
profitable activity in IT is not hardware, not even software, but services.
So they enhanced MPE's inherent profitability by dumping it. A one-shot
gimmick ? Probably. But, since everything in IT revolves around 18-month
circles at best, who cares ?

Christian

PS : My best resolution for 2004 is to sharpen my critical/cynical sense of
humor

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> part de joe andress
> Envoyé : dimanche 4 janvier 2004 01:30
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> Objet : [HP3000-L] OT: The Proper Choice
>
>
> I read this on Friday and though that I would share.
> Regardless of individual personal thoughts or ideals, we all
> have the ability to make choices.
>
>     The best possible New Year's Resolution.  Simple .. I
> stole it from Og Mandino many years ago.  "Use wisely your
> power of choice."  The greates influences on the direction
> your life takes during this year will come from the choices
> you make every single day of our life.  Your lifestyle, your
> standard of living ... your very happiness or despair is a
> direct result of the cumulative effect of the choices that
> you make.  Every choice counts. Use them wisely.
>
>     Neal Bootz
>
> Monday starts the first full week of a new year. May the new
> year be both as good and better than the last year.
>
> May all the choices that we make, be the best ever.
>
> May HP see the errors of their ways, change their mind, make
> the proper choice and see the true value of MPE.
>
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