At 12:02 PM 11/14/2001 -0500, Jim Phillips wrote:
>As expected (and promised) HP has announced the end of the HP3000.  They
>also have announced the following:
>
>No port of MPE to IA-64
>
>Open Source of MPE is being discouraged, but they will listen to proposals
>
>On the Open Source issue, HP says that they don't see the value of this
>because if they couldn't hold the "ecosystem" (HP's new word for customers
>and ISV's, I suppose) together, how is anyone else going to be able to do
>it?

I am reasonably sure that if some entity "took over" MPE, they would also
take over the revenue stream that has apparently been invisible to CSY
(support).  Most of the vendor community already realize that in the long
run, it is the support revenue stream that you live on.

If there were 30,000 systems each paying $1,000 per month then that is a 30
MILLION dollar per month revenue stream.
If there were only 5,000 systems each paying $500 per month,  .... well you
get the idea.
On the other hand, they would lose the revenue from new system sales which
would presumably still fall to HP.



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