Nick and List:

I too sent a personal message to Carly on 11-15-01 and received verbatim the exact same reply as our colleague Mr. Tony B Shepard. Sounds like a canned reply that they (hp) anticipated.

Regards

John M Penney
Systems Programmer / Administration
Production Services
Information Services Department
Pierce County
Tacoma, WA 
253-798-6215
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>>> Nick Demos <[log in to unmask]> 12/03/01 08:19AM >>>
I am glad that Tony at least got a reply.  I wrote George and never got
a reply.
Maybe I have to email Carly to hear from George!

My brief take on the 3000 announcement is:

1.  HP promised to take it to IA-64.  Is that promise worth anything?.
2.  HP has always given its customers a path to follow.  Where is the
path
here.  Saying that the customers have "several options" is inadequate.
3. IMHO open source is not the answer.  At least for now it seems the
answer should be somehow piggyback MPE into IA-64 via HP-UX.

Regards,

Nick D.

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