At 09:21 PM 4/3/2002 -0800, John Burke wrote:

>The fact that Winston Prather's talk was reduced from the advertised 30
>minutes to 10 pretty much tells the story. He spent much of his 10 minutes
>congratulating himself and HP because, according to their surveys, fully 85%
>(Interex is showing more like 75%) of the HP 3000 customers were taking HP's
>advice and planning to move off the HP 3000. He seemed unconcerned about the
>fact that since HP has not given any support to any other alternative,
>customers really have no choice other than to say they are going to
>transition off the HP 3000. A more interesting question is why 15% to 25% of
>customers still refuse to go lock-step behind the only presented
>alternative?

I in the middle of polling my customer base to see what their plans are in
light of 11/14. I've talked to 10 of them so far, a very small and
unrepresentative sample of the entire HP3000 customer base. Still, half of
the them are staying put with MPE until at least 2006. One signed a 10-year
support contract with a third-party support organization.

The other half either have started or will start looking their options, one
of which is to stay on MPE. None of these are to committed to staying with
HP, HP is just one of the hardware vendors they are looking at. A couple
are at least looking at the AS/400.

Winston could very well be right that 85% of the HP3000 customers will
move. However, that does not jibe with what I am seeing from my own
customers, or talking to other software vendors, or the sense that I get
here on 3000-L.

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Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
313 N. 1st Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
http://www.northtech.com/

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