Roy Brown wrote:

>Those of us who were regulars at the UK HPCUA Conferences,
>and with memories long enough to remember Allbase/4GL, may recall that
>HP repeatedly referred to this product when it came out as 'strategic'.
>
>A year later it was gone. Indeed, my business card case may be the only
>evidence that it ever existed.
>
>By analogy with 'those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make
>mad', I have always held that 'those products that HP Management wish to
>discontinue, they first make strategic'.
>
>If I'd been at HPW-2001 and heard those representations, I'd have been
>*way* ahead of you re 11-14....

I just went to the very newest hp at http://www.hp.com/
and I did a search on "strategic".  My heart sank when the
results came back: 1472.

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