Yesterday I posted an update:

> > ...... This morning I just got a call from our HP
> > contract coordinator, and she sez:
> >
> > 6.5 PP2 is "temporarily out of stock"....
>
> After above I put in a call to HP RC.  They just called me back.
> RC answer:  They just talked to "software distribution people",
> and were told "we have plenty 6.5 EXP2" .......
>
> Just now I got my HP Government Business Center software
> coordinator on the line again (live person).  I told her what RC
> said.  She said the "temporarily out of stock" answer she gave
> me earlier also came from the "software distribution people".

6.5 EXP2 is now "in transit" to our site....   What caused the
original "out of stock" mix-up ??....   Near as I can determine
from our contract coordinator, when she originally put in the
order it was submitted as a request to *RELEASE* 6.5 EXP2
to us.  Response to that was "temp out of stock".

But now after I told her that HP RC sez there are plenty 6.5
EXP2 available, she put in a second request to *SHIP* same.
...  "SHIP" was apparently the magic word...   Why does one
work and the other not;  for exactly the same thing ??...  I don't
have the foggiest;   it's on the way;  I'll be content with that....

Ken Sletten