Donna,

        An excellent point to bring up during the discussion phase of the OpenMPE
session at HP World.  Will you be there?

Thanx,
        Jon

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Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 6:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] HP RUG's


"Vivino, David" wrote:

> We are all dealing
> with these same issues.  The reason most folks are planning to migrate
away
> from MPE is that HP won't support it any longer.  Pretty sound reasoning.
> They think the risk is too high to plan to stay with MPE over the long
haul.

there may not be much we can do these days regarding advocating for mpe --
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.
i
think we all remember trying to explain to the call takers what mpe was!
this
is absolutely unacceptable!  next week is the perfect time to get hp's 'ear'
and
tell them that the response center and backline groups *must* be adequately
staffed.         - d

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