At 11:14 AM 2/11/2005, Larry Barnes wrote:
>Now, if HP could find a GREAT salesperson to re-promote the HP3000??
>This is why, in my onion, the HP3000 started dying back in the 80's;
>lack of quality sales people to promote the product.  Too much focus was
>placed on HP-ux.

There has been some talk on this list that now that Carly is gone, HP will
revive MPE. I just don't see that happening. The conditions that led to
MPE's discontinuance were established, as Larry points out, before Carly
arrived. Beyond HPs lack of sales effort in MPE is the trend away from
proprietary OS. Whether anyone here likes it or not, the future is not with
a proprietary OS like MPE, and HP will be foolish to invest any money in
reviving it. The market just isn't there. Reviving it may make our lives
easier, but from HPs standpoint it makes no financial sense.

--
Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
130 S. 1st Street, Suite 220
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1343
http://www.northtech.com/

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