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<[log in to unmask]>, John
Burke <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Wirt writes:

>> What I hear from our customers are two things: The first is,  "I just
>>want to  keep the HP3000 alive long enough (five to ten years) for me
>>retire,"  obviously meaning, "Let it be someone else's problem." The
>>second is,  "There's no way that I can go to my boss and tell him that
>>because HP screwed  us over we need to spend one to two million
>>dollars migrating  our code over  to a new box and have me look good."

>How about 5 plus years and $30 million dollars to go from a home grown
>MPE-IMAGE system to SAP? True story. And this is considered a success.

Of course it is. The failures are when they spend that much time and
money, and *still* don't make it off MPE/Image...

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