Mr. Koster,
Your understanding is correct, WRQ EnterView is continuing its support
of both the HP3000 and 9000.
The omission of a direct reference to the HP3000/9000 (as well as most
of the UNIX platforms supported ) was in no way intended to imply
non-support of that platform, or leave the reader inferring some slight
towards
that platform.
When sneak previewing a product such as WRQ EnterView that supports
myriad platforms it is nearly impossible to list every supported platform
without comprimising the rest of the review. In the case of EnterView, a
listing of
all back-end platforms would have left the review sounding like a
press-release rather
than a preview of it's features and abilities.
My exclusion of specific platforms was due to space considerations and
nothing else.
Thank you,
Lori MacVittie.
-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn J. Koster, Sr. <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, April 19, 1999 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: Reflection EnterView Software review...
>Ms. MacVittie,
>
>This morning I received a link via email to your article on the
>Reflection EnterView software from WRQ. I am a little disappointed in
>the article. It is my understanding that the EnterView software will
>also work to connect to HP 3000 systems - the bread and butter of WRQ's
>Reflection series of terminal emulator connections. For you to have
>ommitted a reference to the HP 3000 system tells me one of several
>things:
>
>1. WRQ has forgotten the customer base that brought them to where they
>are today;
>
>2. You have done an incomplete analysis of the product and consequently
>your journalism skills need to be updated;
>
>3. You, or your editors, have a bias toward certain platforms which
>detracts from the quality of your work and renders it useless.
>
>My experience with WRQ over the last (too?) many years indicates that
>they are not about to make the mistake of many other vendors and forget
>the customer base that is most important to their continued success.
>The HP 3000 platform is not only a valid platform for many successful
>companies, it is a growing platform in many ways. For further
>discussion (and possible future article information?), please peruse the
>notes regarding the MPE/iX platform that can be found in any news reader
>under "comp.sys.hp.mpe".
>
>Since it is not logical to assume that RWQ is the source of the issue,
>than I assume that it is either with you, as an author, or your
>editors. Please let me know. Many anxious MPE sites await your
>response!
>
>One of the current problems with the mainstream press, including IMHO
>"Network Computing", is an inability by most of authors and editors to
>accept MPE and the HP 3000 platform as a viable platform for any "real
>computing". This is too bad, because the MPE/iX platform is a robust
>operating, open operating system that is powering a tremendous number of
>truly successful IT shops.
>
>Glenn J. Koster, Sr.
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