Bruce,

> Just wondering: to what extent could this proposed ad reinforce the
> widely-held opinion that HP is pulling the plug on MPE?

In effect, HP's upper management is pulling the plug on MPE - or at
least their efforts are about as helpful as drilling holes in a boat
to let the water out.   So, at least, it appears to me.    This puts
us in quite the dilema.

But yes, I agree, we need to pay close attention to the wording.

- Cortlandt


"Bruce Toback" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> Just wondering: to what extent could this proposed ad reinforce the
> widely-held opinion that HP is pulling the plug on MPE? Unless it's
> worded very carefully, it could have just that effect. Most of the
> proposals so far would be a gift to IBM. If I were selling AS/400s
> against MPE, I'd carry a copy of the ad with me and say, "See the
kind of
> vendor support you can expect from HP?"
>
> Any "Hey, Carly" [cringe] -type ad ought to reference evidence (not
> opinion) that the HPe3000 is a financially-successful product in
order to
> blunt that kind of use.
>
> -- Bruce
>
> PS. Why is it that Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs... get to
be
> called by their full names, but Carly Fiorina just gets "Carly"? On
the
> other hand, even HP's own press office calls her "Carly", so maybe
> there's some advantage to it. I recall that Paul Chu, discoverer of
> high-temperature superconductivity, used to have a trick when the
> chemicals he needed were in short supply: he'd have his female
graduate
> students call the male sales reps, and male grad students call the
female
> sales reps. I wonder if that's why she's "Carly" even to HP's PR
people.
>
> - B
>
>
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