At 07:33 AM 8/29/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >Duane writes:
> >
>
>
>Sorry you feel that way. It's unfortunate that the obvious
>business case of the hp e3000's failure eludes your ability
>to comprehend.
>

here's one of my frustrations with this (one of many, I might add),   where
is the
business case?  We don't get to see the numbers.   We only have HP's word
that they weren't making money, and in fact they didn't actually say that they
weren't making money did they?  Just that they thought they might lose money
in the future.

And as for as CSY not seeing the support revenue, that doesn't mean that HP
didn't get the money, it's just means that they cooked the books to make the
HP3000 look bad.

And why?  why? why? did they do this?

and one other comment on the fact that some of us are unwilling to change.

I started out on key punch in a Burroughs shop, with tape drives to store
off our master
files after we updated them, and then had to purge them from the 20MB disk
drive
before we could run the next system data file updates.

I think I've made plenty of changes over the years, just that I really
really hate to
make changes just for the sake of change.   And to what?  It seems like every
year or two, there is a new *hot* item to change to.   Somethings that I
could have
changed to, are now more obsolete than an HP3000.



Paul D. Christensen
PC Enterprises Inc.      [log in to unmask]
206 Central Avenue
P.O. Box 369
Osakis MN 56360-0369  (www.lakeosakismn.com)

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