> A "carefully contrived marketing manoeuvre", I don't think so.
> The damage has been done.  There is nothing HP can say or do that
> will bring back trust and confidence to where it was before the
> announcement.

Actually, it's quite viable!  Just like Coca-Cola _claimed_, HP had no idea
how popular its soda flavor er OS flavor really is.

Little did HP know (uh, forgot(?)) all those Fortune 500 companies who
quietly and reliably run their "old fashioned data processing" (read
Financials - the bread & butter of all business, and the very reason all
these lovely electronic toys exist at all) on the HP3000.

Just like Coca-cola: "Gosh, we had no idea, we're sorry, we won't pull that
again!"

How are we gonna sell new ones?  Answer: giant piggie software which
requires grandiose horsepower.  Just imagine Java running faster than
greased lightning downhill.  On a 3000.  That might sell some big boxes!

Maybe I'm crotchety and can't learn new tricks (not!), but I like my MPE,
and I'm not switching to diet pepsi.

Tracy Pierce


> A "carefully contrived marketing manoeuvre", I don't think so.
> The damage has been done.  There is nothing HP can say or do that
> will bring back trust and confidence to where it was before the
> announcement.
>

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