William is quite correct.  MPE'ers are renown for their fierce loyalty
and HP knows there is little danger of more than an acceptable
percentage of us moving off the platform.  As if additional evidence of
our loyalty is required, this same group is now in the midst of passing
an electronic hat to purchase advertisement for the OS!  I simply do not
believe in charitable contributions to advance the agenda of any member
of the Fortune Global 50 (source:
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/global500/csnap/0,5948,CM|206,00.html ).

The answer to everyone's questions of "Why not promote MPE?" is simple:
there is no compelling reason to.  No amount of HP3000-L full page ads
or personalized greeting cards will change the projected revenue stream
from the HPe3000 product lines nor will it significantly alter the
number of brand defections to other platforms.

HP has accepted this "causality level"; we should also.


william l brandt wrote:

> Could the reason the high echelons at HP are quiet on MPE/ix is that they
> are afraid of taking sales from their Unix side? Don't know if this is "the
> reason" but I don't know how to explain such silence over such a large and
> successful installed base...it certainly still makes them money...


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