Why then is vCSY still enhancing/improving as opposed to just handling bug
reports?  Could it be that the strategy was and still is

1) announce the death of the e3k (implying the death of MPE), sell lots of
HPUX boxes.
2) once 123106 rolls around, announce a new HPUX product, MPEmulator, so
they get to sell us MPE all over again, but this one runs on current
hardware, and it doesn't have to do EVERYthing MPE would, just the
very-widely used stuff.  Prolly still has to be HP hardware and HP-UX, too,
for maximum $ transfer.

Pretty holey theory I suppose, but I'd sure love to discover that HP was
actually thinking not just of short-term shareholder return, but of
shareholders, customers, and long-term.

Tracy Pierce

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Brandt [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 8:21 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: OT: Carly's Departure
>
>
> At 11:14 AM 2/11/2005, Larry Barnes wrote:
> >Now, if HP could find a GREAT salesperson to re-promote the HP3000??
> >This is why, in my onion, the HP3000 started dying back in the 80's;
> >lack of quality sales people to promote the product.  Too
> much focus was
> >placed on HP-ux.
>
> There has been some talk on this list that now that Carly is
> gone, HP will
> revive MPE. I just don't see that happening. The conditions
> that led to
> MPE's discontinuance were established, as Larry points out,
> before Carly
> arrived. Beyond HPs lack of sales effort in MPE is the trend away from
> proprietary OS. Whether anyone here likes it or not, the
> future is not with
> a proprietary OS like MPE, and HP will be foolish to invest
> any money in
> reviving it. The market just isn't there. Reviving it may
> make our lives
> easier, but from HPs standpoint it makes no financial sense.
>
> --
> Tom Brandt
> Northtech Systems, Inc.
> 130 S. 1st Street, Suite 220
> Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1343
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