On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Johnson, Tracy <
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> That said, if there are only 89 "voting" OpenMPE members (as of last
> election), and 2 board members rotate out in of the Board every year
> since 2001, then about 15% of the "voting" OpenMPE population will have
> ended up being part of the process!
>

What does the graph of "voting" OpenMPE members look like over time?  I
think your 15% maybe a bit pessimistic in the longer term.

More importantly, what does the graph of "paying" HP3000 users look like
over time?  This is essential when HP makes decisions on placation vs. doing
something, especially when overlaid with HP's HP3000/MPE costs.  These
graphs are something HP looks at every budgeting and business strategy
cycle, and without an upside, or some brilliant plan to create an upside
that HP execs will buy into, what do you think they are going to do?

Placation is relatively cheap, doing something requires the promise of
profit to undertake, and the higher the risk of failure, the higher the
potential profit needs to be.  The things that loom prominently in the risk
assessment are how to keep hardware (PA-RISC) and software (MPE) competive
profitably with the competion (Intel, AMD, IBM, Sun; and Linux, MS Windows,
Solaris).  Therein lies the fate of MPE and the HP3000.

Peter

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