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> I, as many, am extremely saddened by this news.  I have worked with the
> HP3000 for nearly 30 years.  During that time I have worked with many
> other platforms as well, and I can say, without hesitation, it has never
> had any real competition.  It is very sad that HP has strung so many of us
> along for such a long period of time making us think they really cared and
> would be there for us in the future with continued 3000 support.  I have
> lost all respect and TRUST in HP with the advent of today's announcment. I
> can only hope they will live to regret this decision.  However, in light
> of all the bad decisions they seem to be making, they may not.  The
> saddest part is, they can't even see where their ignorance has taken them.
> Shame on you HP!!

I am not well-informed enough to speak one way or the other on most of the
decisions HP has made recently, but by all the information I have, this one,
while saddening, was a neither made in haste nor out of lack of caring.
Winston Prather, Dave Wilde and the others I have had contact with at CSY care
very much both about MPE and about their customers.  CSY (not HP corporate)
made this decision, knowing that they were going to face some very unhappy
customers.  To do that they had to have exceedingly strong evidence that this
was the right thing to do, for their customers at least and, perhaps, also for
MPE.

Please bear in mind that this announcement, while it predicts the eventual
disbanding of CSY (sad in and of itself), it does not imply a lack of life
short-term (native fibre-channel and the 8700 are still one the way) nor the
eventual demise of MPE (lots to be discussed and decided there).

Ted
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