Ted Ashton wrote:
> I agree about the attempts to be cute and so forth.
> If this message is to get there, it needs to be direct.

OK, but let us be direct.   My problem with HP's marketing tactics is
that it undercuts my assurances to my clients that the HP e3000
belongs in their organizational IT strategy.   Like the practice of
medicine, marketing, should follow the motto of "first do no harm".
HP marketing is harmful to the HP e3000 market position as well as the
credibility of anyone who recommends a MPE/iX solution.   It undercuts
years of brand loyalty to the HP 3000 and to Hewlett-Packard itself.



"Ted Ashton" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> Thus it was written in the epistle of Denys Beauchemin,
> >
> > I would suggest that we create a large card which would be signed
by attendees
> > at HP World and would, at the end of the week, be delivered to
Carly.
>
> It appears to have potential.
>
> >             could we keep the mindless chatter and cute little
remarks to a
> > minimum.  :)
>
> Well, now . . . this is 3000-L after all :-)
>
> > From: Some concerned HP World 2000 attendees
> > To: Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett-Packard Company
> > Date:  1972 to September 2000.
> >
> > We want to respectfully inform you that we exist.
> >
> > We are among HP's most faithful customers and have been for a very
long time.
> >
> > We are users of the HP e3000, running the HP invented Operating
System, MPE.
> >
> > Our motto is "MPE Forever."
> >
> > Signed:
>
> But she already knows we exist :-).  I doubt if any of the HP
executives don't
> know that *we* exist.  I expect that many who have no clue that the
3000 exists
> know about us :-).
>
> I agree about the attempts to be cute and so forth.  If this message
is to get
> there, it needs to be direct.  How about (with appropriate headers):
>
> Dear HP,
>   Thank you.  Thank you for inventing MPE.  Thank you for giving us
25 years
> of worry-free computing.  The operating sytem you invented is
top-notch, but
> many folks don't know about it.  Please tell them.  For your good
and ours.
> Thanks again.
>
> Signed,
>
> Ted
> --
> Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist
University
>           ==========================================================
> The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men,
but that
> men will begin to think like computers.
>                         -- Harris, Sydney J.
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>          Deep thoughts to be found at
http://www.southern.edu/~ashted
>