MPE remains a significant system supporting important applications
in many major companies. Now is a great time to expand the use of
MPE.

Peter Keen's talk on Sunday (one of the IT Strategy talks that
generally weren't worth it - his was the major exception) highlighted
the that the winners in the coming everything economy would be those
companies that had perfected the complete, robust, integrated,
technical infrastructure and handled customers exceptional needs
with perfection.

Just what system would we pick to provide a complete business
solution that encompasses e-stuff and all the old stuff, too?

Most of HP and most of the IT industry will try to do this with
complex combinations of NT, Unix, and other middleware with
mainframes and midranges and other things, all "working together".

CSY and it's ISVs can provide a complete, customized, business
solution with a single platform (sometimes needing multiple
boxes, but on a single operating system for all server related
work).  CSY is like a mini-HP within HP - providing the complete
solution, at least in the niches where it's ISVs are strong.

CSY doesn't so much need to reinvent itself (that was another one
of the IT Strategy talks), the rest of HP
needs to do what CSY has been doing for most of time - customer
focused on technology that enables business solutions.

Yes, MPE needs to and does provide interoperation, too, for
those who seek the complex approach or who think they must
use tools that run on NT only, etc.

It's time to take risks, not just sit on the past and the
comfort of the current MPE users.

I firmly believe that *we* must see MPE as the provider
of the best complete, business solutions and *act* on that belief,
to build the best, complete business solutions available, for
the future of MPE to remain true.  I'm not talking ERP or CRM or
whatever the latest buzzwords, instead, the business solution
customized (perfected) for the company in whatever the industry,
built to the core business of that company, including the
entire relationship of customers and other businesses. Many of
these should be integrated with existing MPE backend systems.

Richard

Gavin Scott wrote:
>
> Bill points out:
> > We have the MPE Roundtable on Wednesday at 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.  The
> > panelists are:  Winston Prather, Dave Wilde, Christine Martino,
> > Dave Snow, Kriss Rant, and Dave Duplantier.  This isn't exactly
> > what Gavin wants but it is the best we can do for this year.
>
> No, that's pretty much the group I would pick to address customer concerns
> related to MPE.
>
> G.

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