Lori,
I will just add one line to what Glenn wrote earlier, and based on your
reply:
WRQ should remember who got them to where they are today - it was on the
backs of MPE users, who used their Reflection/1 (note the 1, not 4, not 8 -
"1") terminal emulator and network products.
It would be a mistake to omit MPE in the future. We are a very proud group
who supported WRQ for quite some time - and MPE users are a very vocal group
- and getting more so.
Best Regards,
Joe Geiser
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lori MacVittie [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 18:43
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Reflection EnterView Software review...
>
>
> Mr. Koster,
>
> Your understanding is correct, WRQ EnterView is continuing its support
> of both the HP3000 and 9000.
>
> The omission of a direct reference to the HP3000/9000 (as well as most
> of the UNIX platforms supported ) was in no way intended to imply
> non-support of that platform, or leave the reader inferring
> some slight
> towards
> that platform.
>
> When sneak previewing a product such as WRQ EnterView that supports
> myriad platforms it is nearly impossible to list every
> supported platform
> without comprimising the rest of the review. In the case of
> EnterView, a
> listing of
> all back-end platforms would have left the review sounding like a
> press-release rather
> than a preview of it's features and abilities.
>
> My exclusion of specific platforms was due to space considerations and
> nothing else.
>
> Thank you,
> Lori MacVittie.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn J. Koster, Sr. <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Monday, April 19, 1999 7:29 AM
> Subject: Re: Reflection EnterView Software review...
>
>
> >Ms. MacVittie,
> >
> >This morning I received a link via email to your article on the
> >Reflection EnterView software from WRQ. I am a little
> disappointed in
> >the article. It is my understanding that the EnterView software will
> >also work to connect to HP 3000 systems - the bread and
> butter of WRQ's
> >Reflection series of terminal emulator connections. For you to have
> >ommitted a reference to the HP 3000 system tells me one of several
> >things:
> >
> >1. WRQ has forgotten the customer base that brought them to
> where they
> >are today;
> >
> >2. You have done an incomplete analysis of the product and
> consequently
> >your journalism skills need to be updated;
> >
> >3. You, or your editors, have a bias toward certain platforms which
> >detracts from the quality of your work and renders it useless.
> >
> >My experience with WRQ over the last (too?) many years indicates that
> >they are not about to make the mistake of many other vendors
> and forget
> >the customer base that is most important to their continued success.
> >The HP 3000 platform is not only a valid platform for many successful
> >companies, it is a growing platform in many ways. For further
> >discussion (and possible future article information?),
> please peruse the
> >notes regarding the MPE/iX platform that can be found in any
> news reader
> >under "comp.sys.hp.mpe".
> >
> >Since it is not logical to assume that RWQ is the source of
> the issue,
> >than I assume that it is either with you, as an author, or your
> >editors. Please let me know. Many anxious MPE sites await your
> >response!
> >
> >One of the current problems with the mainstream press, including IMHO
> >"Network Computing", is an inability by most of authors and
> editors to
> >accept MPE and the HP 3000 platform as a viable platform for
> any "real
> >computing". This is too bad, because the MPE/iX platform is a robust
> >operating, open operating system that is powering a
> tremendous number of
> >truly successful IT shops.
> >
> >Glenn J. Koster, Sr.
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