--- "James B. Byrne" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I had a conversation tangential to this issue a little while ago
> with one of the other members of this list and he pointed out that
> the shift off the HP3000 could be taken as a good thing, in that it
> forced HP3000 shops to open themselves up to other technologies and
> shake off their complacency.

perhaps...

but why associate mpe with complacency?  yes, i realize that's pretty
much how it is...and it a real shame.  everyone says how great mpe is
-- but how many people really take advantage of that greatness?  when i
get the chance i tell people mpe is what unix hopes to be when it grows
up.  yes, stability is a wonderful thing -- but it's no reason to not
grow and change.  this whole complacency thing is a lot of what's
threatening mpe's very existence...and i so wish that weren't the case
:-(          - d

Donna Garverick, HP-CSA   Sr. System Programmer
dgarverick -at- longs -dot- com
925-210-6631              Longs Drug Stores

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are.
"Ulysses", A. Tennyson

>>>MY opinions, not Longs Drug Stores'<<<



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