Ho hum
Last spring I went to a roadshow where a senior HP
manager flown
all-the-way-from-out-there-in-the-good-ol'-USA told a
breathless European audience about the N and A class
machines, and laid out a roadmap of future MPE events,
including 64 bit processors, larger LDEV1 limits etc
etc....
As a cynical old Brit I asked if we could trust HP
to do any of this stuff, as the user base had been
under the impression that HP wanted to kill off the
3000, for years.
"Absolutly" said the HP man "Why would we fly around
the world promoting something we want to kill?"
Either the poor man was ill, or out of the loop, as
big corporations take ages to decide what colour the
toilet paper should be, let alone canceling projects.
My point is that HP should have told us they were
considering this move, months ago.
I certainly would not have bought new kit (which is
now practically worthless) had I known that HP were up
to this.
And my nice, new and shiny kit *is* practiaclly
worthless now, for who is going to buy it when it has
already been pronounced dead on arrival?
regards
and still spitting tin tacks
Robert Browett
--- Richard Gambrell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> There's never a good time to pull the plug on
> something people
> spend money on and are planning on.
>
> HP's giving us five years and there is plenty of
> support to keep
> current systems running businesses now, which is
> what matters
> the most. The systems landscape is changing. HP
> may just
> recognize it earlier than some (like IBM and the
> AS/400 or Compaq
> and VMS), which is protecting their customers the
> best way they can.
>
> What else would you have them do, wait until death
> is a year off
> and say, opps, we make a mistake?
>
> Richard
>
> Robert Browett wrote:
> >
> > Hi Guys and Gals,
> >
> > Well, they have been trying to do it for years,
> now
> > it looks like the management weenies at HP have
> > succeeded in killing the 3000. I've just spent
> half a
> > mil of my companies money buying new kit....guess
> who
> > looks like an idiot now?
> >
> > I wonder what happened to all the plans for the
> > 3000, or was HP management just trying to get one
> last
> > (large) amount of money for N and A class boxes,
> > knowing that the plug was going to be pulled?
> >
> > Yours
> >
> > disgusted with HP
> >
> > Bob Browett
> >
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