Hi Ann,

I have read a statement done by you that HP will focus on Unix, NT, Linux:

But the response from Ann Livermore, president
of HP's Enterprise and Commercial Business, is
very direct: HP's customers are using more than
one operating system and, consequently, "we
have a multi-operating system strategy: HP-UX,
Linux and NT." Nor is HP simply sitting back,
waiting to be told what the customer wants. "I
have a problem with being described as
operating system-agnostic," she says. "We have
an opinion on which works best in each
situation."
(source: Ziff Davis, see
http://www.individual.com/frames/story.shtml?story=c0720309.8zf )

For me as an HPe3000 customer this sounds very strange.

Why do you not name MPE as well ? It offers the same variety of products like
the other platforms do - but it's HP's properity! Are you not proud on this ???
The Operating System MPE is the only one HP invent on it's own, and it lives
longer than the other operating systems you name.

I'm happy to run this platform - especially because I can compare with Unix and
NT we use as well.
Please correct or clearify this statemant to the same forum you said the above
... or do you want to eliminate HP's own Operating System by ignoring it and no
longer selling it to the market ????

The more I think/write the more I feel disappointed. So I will stop but I hope
you got the message: HPe3000 and MPE/iX still lives - and will stay forever (I
hope)!

Best regards,
Andreas Schmidt
CSC Global Infrastructure Services, Global Processing Engineering Services
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