Hello all. As promised the issue of modifying MPE 7.0/7.5 to run on the 9x7
series has been raised with HP by OpenMPE, including some back and forth
discussions.

What is needed now is for the user community that would directly benefit from
this change in HP's position to speak up and make yourselves heard - and HP
*IS* listening. The greater user community will benefit from additional sites
that can perform beta patch testing and certification, so your input will help
as well.

Please let HP know your company's reasons why you want the 9x7 series to run 7.0
and 7.5 - give solid examples. It may be an issue that the IT budget is
extremely tight (who doesn't have that problem?) and there just isn't the money
to upgrade to a 9x9 box, no matter how cheap they may be, and license upgrade
issues from third party software suppliers has to be considered as well. It may
be an issue that your test box is a 9x7 on 6.5 and your production box is 9x? on
7.0 or 7.5 (or an A or N class) and your company's policy prohibits software
migrations from the test environment to the production environment if the
operating systems are not at the same release level. Whatever the reason,
financial, technical, policy or otherwise, let HP know, and please let them
know now! Let HP know if you feel this is a decision best made by the customers
and not the supplier; after all, you and your company know your company's needs
far better than HP. Make the case - HP is listening!

For support issues give examples that HP can investigate (have your paperwork
handy). If your company has been paying support and you feel the quality of
support provided has been slipping the past couple of years - tell HP and tell
them now!

Please make your comments known on the -L and OpenMPE discussion lists, and
please take the time to take the HP customer survey at
http://www.hpcustomersurvey.org/ and if you wish write in your comments in the
various areas the survey provides.

Thank you for your input.