IMHO, I truly believe that hp, as a company, simply thinks it's easier to
sell customers what the customers already think they want rather than to
risk losing the sale by trying to get customers to "learn" what it is that
they might actually need or be able to use efficiently.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Sargent [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 3:16 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: System Administration.
>
> Folks,
>
> My 2 pence (cents!?) worth..... and given that I teach both MPE and
> Unix...... (Unix for some 15 years and MPE for almost 12)
>
> I figure that I could train a teenager (late teens) to become a competent
> (apart from applications) MPE admin within a few weeks (lets say four
> weeks) and they would be able to manage all the major components
> including SYSGEN, NMMGR, spooling and general day to day
> operations etc etc. I would just like to add that this would be BASIC
> admin!
>
> To achieve the same level of competence with Unix would take months
> rather than weeks.
>
> Needless to say that to become a good admin, on either OS, takes
> time and experience and the time factor CANNOT be avoided! BUT
> at least to gain the basic knowledge and be able to perform an admin
> role will be considerably shorter with MPE when compared to Unix.
>
> Both OS's have their advantages and disadvantages in terms of admin
> but my favorite OS, without any shadow of doubt, has got to be MPE!
> Simple and straightforward! I will not even mention NT/2000 :-)
>
> The MPE community has also been mentioned and I would agree that
> it is GREAT. People go out of their way to provide help and assistance
> to those 'newbies' who have not been using it long and this has been
> happening for the last 25 years and more and there is little chance that
> it
> will decline.
>
> I would not like to say that MPE is the Greatest OS in the world but has
> got to be, in my opinion, pretty close. It is certainly underated (to say
> the
> least!) and a HUGE number of organisations would do well to look long
> and hard at MPE before even considering Unix or NT. I also believe it to
> be shame that HP cannot see this for themselves. I know that there is
> still
> a band of dedicated MPE'ers in HP but...... It would be even nicer if HP
> could afford the time to actually show customers what they are missing!?
>
> Well, I have had my say and will now sit back and dream of the day when
> MPE is treated, and generating the same sort of income for HP, the way
> that
> it was 10 years ago......
>
> Ahhhhhhh. Yes, I know - DREAM ON! But it is a nice dream!
>
> TTFN
> Ian
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