In a message dated 10/24/02 5:03:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<<        If these 18 vendors told you they would support their products as
long as
 there in one HP3000 out there, then I would tend to want to believe that
 they believe that - at this time - and will do everything reasonable (within
 business sense) to make it so (and we in the OpenMPE community need to do
 everything possible to make is so as well).  Still, I believe in being
 prepared and it would be best to create a plan to allow for the use of
 SS_Config, should it ever been needed, while HP / CSY is still in a position
 to create a plan.  If it's never used, then no harm was done.
  >>

Regarding third-party vendors, I would really like to see each one promise
that
if or when circumstances change and they are about to drop out of the HP3000
support arena, they will provide one last release with no expiration and no
checking of CPU name or model or serial or anything.  There's no need to
protect against piracy if you're getting out of the market anyway.

Cecile Chi