Mathew
In response to your e-mail.  Our company would greatly benefit by upgrading
our 9x9 systems to 7.5.  Due to the inherent third party costs associated
with migrating to an A or N class system prohibits us from following this
path.  If we wanted to get on the latest platform release of this system our
only option is to install 7.x on our 9x9 systems
Zelik

-----Original Message-----
From: OpenMPE Support Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Matthew Perdue
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 3:39 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: 9x7's to run 7.0 or 7.5 - your comments needed NOW!


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.



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