Sheesh! Why does there continue to be no sense of urgency? 3 1/2 weeks and
this "Focus Group" is just being finalized. I'll repeat something I wrote on
10/17 on HP's apparent strategy: "If HP delays and stalls long enough,
everyone will just get frustrated and go away."

The strategy has worked on me. I no longer have any interest in
participating in secret focus groups, or any focus groups for that matter.
Everything has already been said in public forums, but HP chooses not to
listen. Why continue wasting time talking to a company like HP? [Please note
I am NOT implying bad faith on the part of any current members of vCSY, but
on HP the company.]

Note also that vCSY no longer has any source of funding now that the last HP
3000 has been sold. What is HP's incentive to follow through on the promises
already made, let alone promises that come out of the latest focus group?

John Burke

> -----Original Message-----
> From: OpenMPE Support Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
> Jonathan M. Backus
> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 5:37 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Focus Group
>
>
>         The new Focus Group has been defined, but we would
> like to have
> a few additional participants.  If you would be interested in taking
> part, but have not responded, please send me an email and you will be
> added to the list.
>
> Thanx,
>     Jon Backus
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: OpenMPE Support Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of
> Jonathan M. Backus
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 10:56 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [OPENMPE] Focus Group
>
>
>         Mike Paivinen (HP) has asked us to start up the Focus Group
> discussions again.  The goal is to have a group of roughly 10 - 15
> OpenMPE end users that would be willing to meeting for a
> small series (2
> or 3) conference calls.  There would also be a private non-archived
> listserv used for scheduling of the conference calls and follow-up
> discussion.  To better insure success Mike and I have agreed that he
> will take a more active direct roll in scheduling the
> conference calls,
> but OpenMPE will be very involved in the discussion.
>
>         If you would be interested in being part of the Focus Group,
> please reply to me directly and I will get you setup.  If you can't do
> it right now, but would be interested, stay tuned.  As time
> goes on and
> people are not able to stay in the Focus Group (for whatever
> reason) we
> may be asking for new volunteers to help hold the numbers within the
> desired range.
>
> Thanx,
>     Jonathan (Jon) M. Backus, MPE-CSM ~ Chairman
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