My fellow OpenMPE Inc. Board member Ted Ashton notes:

> What HP doesn't seem to cotton to yet is that they *can't*
> force anyone to buy HP-UX.  They seem to have the idea
> that the legendary MPE-users loyalty is loyalty to
> anything with the initials "HP" and that if they get rid
> of MPE, it won't occur to us to look elsewhere.  The "we
> don't need these customers" or "they'll stay with us no
> matter what" attitude (I'm not sure which it is) surprises
> me far more than the MPE EOL announcement.

I suppose at the stratospheric level of the new HewPaq HP
Corporate *could* make a decision that in the big scheme
of things the MPE user base is small enough that those
customers are "acceptable losses" and expendible.  But IF
they have convinced themselves that "MPE / ex-MPE users will
stay with HP no matter what", then all I can say is HP has a
major denial and delusion problem...  If the public status
quo is still in place by HPW-LA, HP better be ready for a
significant "attitude adjustment"...

Ken Sletten

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