Ken writes:
>
> Our software updates come through the HP Federal Business
> Center in Rockville, MD.  I put in our order for 6.5 PP2 a
> couple weeks ago.  This morning I just got a call from our HP
> contract coordinator, and she sez:
>
> 6.5 PP2 is "temporarily out of stock"....  huh ????....  Since I
> was planning to update while most of the rest of the Base is
> shut down for a week at the end of this month (although think
> I'm gonna check on the inbound buffer pool problem that Carl
> just reported (even though we do NOT do token ring) ), I sure
> hope this "out of stock" condition is indeed VERY temporary...
>
> Anybody else (especially non-government sites) get same
> above answer;  and / or know how "temporary" this might be ??
>

Bizarre is all I can say.  I'm sitting here with two of them (DDS) and could
send you one legalities permitting but I just can't believe HP wouldn't just
burn a bunch more given the vast resources of a multi-billion $$$ company.

--- Unless they're somehow changing it and postponing further deliveries...

It bears repeating: Bizarre.

jds