Hear hear Greg.

Decisions are made based on many factors in our
lives....this experience has soured many devotees and will
impact future decisions.....emotionally or not, their exp.
and hindsight will direct them to other options. Its just a
fact.....amoung all the other influences and facts while
one ponders decisions.

--- Greg Terterian <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In a message dated 11/16/2001 8:49:40 AM Pacific Standard
> Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
> > Anyone making a strictly emotional decision to rule out
> HP from any future
> > consideration is doing himself and his company a
> disservice.
>
> Oh really!!!   You mean the company spent millions and
> has the best selling
> software on the market and HP overnight tells that
> company that they have no
> product to sell tomorrow and the millions he spent are
> gone forever and they
> should thank HP?
>
> Come on guys, let's get real.
>
> Yeah, I agree that most of us are angry and are saying
> things without
> thinking twice, but as far as staying with HP on the long
> run (I will hold on
> to HP3000 as long as my customers want me to), HP is
> definitely out of the
> picture.  No, I am not angry from HP because after John
> Young, HP started to
> make too many mistakes and I was expecting something like
> this, but to be
> honest, I was not doing anything about it, because deep
> in my heart I really
> beleived that HP is going to come forward and actually
> take MPE/iX to the
> next level to IA64.
> Well, enough said.  Once again, good luck to all of you
> who will decide to
> convert to HP Unix and good luck to all of us who will
> decide to go to other
> directions (of course that is after I will be 100% that
> HP3000 is no longer
> exist and of course I will keep my HP3000 regardless.)
>
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