Donna issues a call to the barricades:

> there may not be much we can do these days regarding
> advocating for mpe --

Not beyond end-of-HP-support to HP.  but that's (hpefully)
not nearly the whole story.  Stay tuned (but I digress).

>...  but there's one thing that i feel we as a community
> need to raise bloody h*ll over.  mpe support people at
> hp are being laid-off at alarming rates -- right now!
> i'm greatly concerned that within another month or so,
> when we call in for help, we'll be back to the situation
> we had a couple of years ago when the response center
> didn't have enough (knowledgable) mpe people to handle
> the call-load.

An excellent point...  I thought it was so good that I
went to the HPW web site to pre-submit a roundtable
question...  and...:  BZZZZZZST !!!...  Surprising that
I haven't got around to wanting to start to do that until
now...  anyway:  It appears that except for the single
remaining HP "Strategic Management Roundtable", what at
prior HPWs were a bunch of other roundtables have now
become "panels"...   O.K.;  no problem with the title
change...  BUT:  I don't see any way to pre-submit
questions to any of these panels.  If there is and I
missed it, please point me in the right direction; sorry
for waste of bandwidth...  But if you really can't do
that anymore...  I am displeased...    :-(

Ken Sletten

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