Greg asks:

> I know that I am not the only list member with only the sketchiest view of
>  what happened ten years ago at HP World in Boston, and that understanding
is
>  gleaned from the occasional passing comment such as this. I have no
alterior
>  motives in this, but just want to understand clearly, what exactly
happened?

Denys gave a highly sanitized version of what happened at Boston ten years
ago, but the story goes back much further than that. It was the actions of HP
management, both within CSY and higher-level HP management, for the five to
ten years previous that truly caused the explosion in Boston.

But that was a different time, and the HP of that epoch was about as
different from the CSY we have now as you could possibly imagine.
Nonetheless, there is a very accurate, if not fairly funny, retelling of the
unbundling of IMAGE and the subsequent Boston events in the form of a song at:

     http://www.economics.harvard.edu/~volokh/unbundle.html

written by Sasha Volokh, Eugene's brother.

Wirt Atmar