The last thing I would want to do is have HP sell out the future of MPE and
feel the wrath of this list... :)

I haven't been as active in the past year on the 3000 enhancements as I have
been previously but I do recall those same three    requests regarded as a
high priority to the 3000 community. I guess we should classify them as
'nice to haves' and hope that someday a fellow engineer will pick some of
the fruit before it becomes rotten....

Rick 'bummed that he is missing HPWorld' Clark

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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] sib results


Rick ponders:
> So what was the purpose of the survey? It sounds to me like they are not
> even planning on looking at any of the 'top 3' requests!

Well, at the moment CSY seems to be concentrating on the "big" items rather
than the little ones.  At the moment it's the push to get the "N" class
3000's out, and then after that it will be the IA-64 transition.  These are
both huge projects which are consuming most of their resources.

Unless, of course, you want to sell out the future of MPE in exchange for
short term incremental enhancements :-)

Even if HP didn't have time to work on *any* of the SIB items, having the
survey results is still very valuable because they can be used for things
like prioritizing new additions to the Open Source program for MPE, etc.

And there's always a chance that someone will get some free time and be able
to pick off one or more of the "low hanging fruit" items which are most
popular.

G.