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Sletten Kenneth W KPWA <[log in to unmask]> writes

>If there was ever an HPW where MPE users should have
>maximum opportunity to express themselves to HP managers,
>this is the one...Seems like it would be SO easy to just
>change the title on the web to "HP e3000 Strategic
>Management Panel"...  If Interex will just let me in
>there with Front Page (ha!!) I'll be happy to do it for
>them...

> OTOH, I Suppose it's hard for HP to bring
>themselves to call the e3000 "Strategic" at this point
>(even though it's only a year ago that Ann Livermore and
>other senior HP execs made some strong and direct
>statements to that effect at HPW-2001 <sigh>)...

Those of us who were regulars at the UK HPCUA Conferences,
and with memories long enough to remember Allbase/4GL, may recall that
HP repeatedly referred to this product when it came out as 'strategic'.

A year later it was gone. Indeed, my business card case may be the only
evidence that it ever existed.

By analogy with 'those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make
mad', I have always held that 'those products that HP Management wish to
discontinue, they first make strategic'.

If I'd been at HPW-2001 and heard those representations, I'd have been
*way* ahead of you re 11-14....
--
Roy Brown
Kelmscott Ltd

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