Greg wrote:

>While clearing out some old mail, I ran across a letter from
>Marilyn Edling, Vice President, North American Enterprise Systems,
>whose envelope is post-marked Apr 11'02. It begins:
>--------
>To Our Valued HP e3000 Customers:
 [snip]

> Words fail me.

I am wondering what you are bothered by:

1. That hp is viewing everyone as valued when you feel de-valued
   because they are not going to support your favorite computer system?

2. The realization that hp had been working on migration *things*
   prior to the 11/14 announcement?

3. That hp even bothered to e-mail you at all?


I don't have a problem with this. I feel a lot more valued than the
colleagues of mine who woke up one day a number of years ago to read
about their beloved h/w vendor (Prime) who had decided to get out of the
server h/w business. Followed up very shortly by the same company totally
folding and becoming a *nothing* with a lot less than 5 years of notice.

And I don't even see a problem with them starting to work on things prior
to the 11/14 announcement. This is pretty common in a large, publicly
traded business. In fact today it was announced that General Magic was
finally throwing in the towel. However, they have been spending time/energy
working out a deal to transition certain core products to another
business - all prior to the announcement.

What has bothered me is I have seen hp spend more time/energy/$$ post
announcement on the hpe3k than prior. I will never understand how
marketing decisions were made in hp/csy :-(

duane percox

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