In message <[log in to unmask]>, John R. Wolff
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<Snip history of missed opportunities>

>Now most recently, HP has promoted the migration from the HP3000 to HP-UX.
>Forcing customers to contemplate and embark on an expensive process, which
>will yield no new value when and if completed.  As we speak HP has just
>purchased Compaq Computer and is about to integrate it into the fold.
>More "new" trendy thinking is on the way.  Just a couple of days ago the
>new HP President, Michael Capellas, disclosed publicly that (as
>he/HP/Compaq sees it) UNIX is on the way out in favor of Windows and
>Linux.

Questions that everyone who is thinking of migrating to HP-UX should
stop and ask themselves are 'How long do I think that HP-UX will be
around?'

And 'If/when it isn't, how much more cost and time disruption will it
take me to move to Linux?'

> Instead HP assumes that present HP3000 customers or users
>will have some reason to want to stay with any HP solution and migrate.

HP still seems to think that we are all apples on the MPE tree, and that
now HP isn't going to water and feed that tree anymore, all it has to do
is shake it. And we'll all come tumbling down into the HP-UX blanket
spread out below.

But we are not apples, we are birds. And if we have to fly, we can just
as well fly off to any other tree we fancy, HP or non-HP.

IBM is well aware of this, which is why it is making sure we all know
how comfy and welcoming its iSeries tree can be to us.....
--
Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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