Mantra. You said it!

While it is important to adapt to the changes, I hope they consider
this:

"For I am the Lord, I change not;" <snip>   Malachi 3:6  KJV

He doesn't have to change because He is perfect. So, let's keep the
'perfect' things of the HPe3000 the same (like not needing to recompile
your code with every OS upgrade, high reliability, high performance
bundled DBMS) and adapt and change the things that aren't (yet :-)
perfect.

HPe3000 - perfection needs no changes (OK maybe a little over-stated)


Wirt Atmar wrote:
>
> If you want to be a leader in today's world, let me offer you a trick in ONE
> easy step:
>
>      Step 1: Read Darwin -- or at least be able to quote one specific
> Darwinian sentence.
>
> The empirical evidence I offer for that statement are these relatively recent
> web pages (out of several hundred that are on the web), including two of
> Carly Fiorina's:
>
>      http://www.armymedicine.army.mil/medcom/medlinet/Quote/tsld007.htm
>      http://www.unisoncap.com/english/top.html
>      http://www.wood.army.mil/ENGRMAG/PB5002/Ballard.htm
>      http://www.hp.com/ghp/ceo/speeches/reinvent.html
>      http://www.hp.com/ghp/ceo/speeches/invent.html
>      http://www.governor.wa.gov/speeches/000404digital.htm
>      http://www.doc.gov/eda/html/cjspro00.htm
>      http://www.manager-magazin.de/magazin/artikel/0,1113,1902,00.html
>      http://www.pumps.org/public/news/presentations_print.htm
>      http://www.bnha.co.uk/corporate/misterhird.htm
>      http://www.fsvk.com/bios/sf_burke_chicotel/0004_news.html
>
> ... among many others.
>
> I gather that there is a great sense of instability out there in the world,
> and as a result, a great uncertainty as to what to do next. The foolish
> conclusion of this new self-imposed management mantra would be to assume that
> you must constantly re-invent yourself and that what is past is no longer
> prologue, nor even desirable.
>
> Wirt Atmar