Is it Hear, Hear or Here Here?  Anyway one
of them.
Gary

----- Original Message -----
From: "F. Alfredo Rego" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] How does MPE sound?


> At 1:40 PM -0400 9/25/00, Ken Hirsch wrote:
>
> >This is nothing particular to MPE.  Other proprietary operating systems
have
> >either disappeared or are declining: Unisys, Wang, Data General, DEC,
Prime,
> >etc.  I'm tempted to quote the Highlander tag: "In the end, there can be
> >only one."  Well, it might be more than one, but it's not going to be
many.
> >It can be predicted from computer economics.
>
> Excellent reasoning.  The question still remains: Why did Windows (a
> proprietary system) thrive?  Because of the energy that Bill Gates put
> behind Windows.  Bill Gates NEVER sat there, just waiting for "something"
> to happen or for "somebody" to tell him what to do.  Bill Gates is a
> proactive leader (reactive folks are just wannabe leaders :-)
>
>
> >Is it too late for MPE? Yes.
>
> Go back a few years, when Windows was a mess (some people will disagree
> with me and say that Windows is STILL a mess, but I won't enter into
> such discussions :-)
>
> How do you believe Bill Gates *felt* then?  How do you KNOW Bill gates
> *acted* then?  Where would Windows be today had Bill just played dead?
> There is a huge difference between "leader" and "chairman, CEO, president,
> manager, or whatever".  Everyone wants to be known as a leader.  Very
> few people *act* as leaders.  Bill Gates acts as a leader.  Steve Jobs
> acts as a leader.  Good for them.
>
>
> Bottom line, as I wrote a few days ago:
>
>         Always looking forward to the future (which somehow depends on
>         how much work we do today, because good things tend to NOT fall
>         out of the sky by themselves)
>
>
> So, only the managers at HP can answer the question "Is it too late for
MPE?"
>
> As Shawn Gordon just wrote, "the real question is why do we, as users,
have
> to do this, or talk about it at all?"
>
>
>
>
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