Gee, is there a recurring theme here?  I remember seeing a photo in
Winston's slide show that quite strikingly resembled Alfred E Neuman, but I
resisted the urge to point it out.  Now we're being told exactly "No
worries!"?  Hmm.

Tracy "What, me worry?" Pierce

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sletten Kenneth W KPWA [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 5:35 PM
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> Subject: Re: Next HP Webcast
>
>
> Larry Barnes just noted:
> ======================================
>
> It will be interesting how HP dances around this topic:
>
> *       Now that HP has announced that it will
>         discontinue MPE/iX, how do I know they
>         won't do the same thing to HP-UX?  Once
>         I've decided on a strategic direction, how
>         do I choose the best destination platform?
> =======================================
>
> Per full-page HP ad in the "Migrating from MPE 3000
> Special Supplement" ("MPE 3000" ????....) section of
> April 2002 HP World mag:
>
> HP's lead answer is (exact quote):  "No worries".  ....
> but:  Dispite a bit of residual carry-forward in that
> answer from the old (defunct years ago) HP Australian
> Software Operation, in same paragraph that started
> with the "no worries" I noticed something I thought was
> interesting.  Maybe this has always been general
> knowledge and I just never picked up, but:  It goes on
> to say "We (HP) have installed over two million HP-UX
> systems, over 50,000 of which are in mission-critical
> environments."
>
> Say, what ??..  Am I correct in interpreting last above
> as meaning that 1,950,000 of the two million HP-UX
> systems were workstations;  and only 50,000 were
> servers ??..  That would mean that the total installed
> base of SERVERS for HP-UX was in same ballpark as
> total for MPE...  nah:  Even I don't think that's sounds
> likely;  HP must be defining "mission critical" in this
> case as a subset of their total installed HP-UX server
> base... or are they ??..  hmmm..  guess I'll have to live
> without knowing for now....
>
> Ken Sletten
>
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