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Re: Upcoming HP e3000 Product Announcement Web Cast
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"F. Alfredo Rego" <[log in to unmask]>
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F. Alfredo Rego
Date:
Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:47:22 -0600
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At 3:01 PM -0500 8/30/02, George Stachnik <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>...  Before HP would let us announce plans
>to phase out the hp e3000 and the MPE/iX operating system, we had
>to make sure that there would be hardware available with enough processing
>power to carry customers through the next five years.   That's why we
>introduced the a-class and n-class last year, and why we are introducing
>performance "kickers" to those systems now.


At 7:33 AM -0700 8/15/02, John Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote
commenting on my "man in the street" report from LinuxWorld:

>No disrespect, but did you get hold of some particularly potent weed there
>in SF? You do not seriously believe Carly will even mention MPE in passing
>do you? Carly's keynote will be a self-congratulatory pat on the back about
>how great the merger is and how great the two companies are coming together
>and how great the "new HP" (or is that "new hp"?) is going to be.

Is George a patron of the supplier for such a "particularly potent weed
there in SF"?

To paraphrase John:  George doesn't seriously believe that the A-Class
qualifies as having "enough processing power to carry customers through
the next five years", does he?  Did George miss the friendly chats about
"CPU crippling" for the A-Class (under MPE/iX, of course, not under
HP-UX)?

George is a good guy and he sings wonderfully (I'll never forget his
performance at HP World last year during Winston Prather's superb
hp3000 presentation).  His diction is impeccable and his delivery is
second to none.  So, I *want* to believe that he just wasn't aware
of the slight shortcomings of the A-Class in terms of raw processing
power (under MPE/iX, not under HP-UX).  Same hardware, slightly
different bias on (for? by? through?) OS software.

Unabashedly unbiased,

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  |            r  |  Alfredo                     [log in to unmask]
  |          e    |                           http://www.adager.com
  |        g      |  F. Alfredo Rego
  |      a        |  Manager, R & D Labs
  |    d          |  Adager Corporation
  |  A            |  Sun Valley, Idaho 83353-3000            U.S.A.
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