My GM wasn't nearly as reliable as ANY HP I've worked on. Lets give HP some
credit here. I agree with the size analogy, but my '98 GM could not be fixed
in less than three visits to a dealer for anything. My HP on the other hand,
runs day-in, day-out without even an oil change. (Where is the dip stick
anyway?)

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I would be interested in knowing who got a response from Ann Livermore...

OK, the ads say "HP invent". And MPE is the operating system that HP
invented.

IBM is giving us AS/400 ads with the guy who played Command Sisko. So pick a
(military?) leader, either from TV fiction or the real world, and give us
some commercials that put MPE up there as a solution. I kind of like Colin
Powell for this.

Or (perish the thought) HP could NOT copy IBM, and do some truly original
ads, or even just continue the ones with Carly. But make it clear that you
rank up there with IBM, are closer to IBM than you are to Sun. HP is a
Chrysler, a Ford, a General Motors. Sun is a Hyundai, a KIA.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com