In a message dated 10/19/02 9:42:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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 Jeff Vance asks:

 >Does the OpenMPE community believe it is the best use of CSY's time
 >to try to get most of MPE into official Open Source vs. other
 >activities

 Ron Seybold replies:

 >There's another, much more important activity: Getting MPE into the
 >hands of an organization that will grow the environment's potential.

I was starting to write a reply to Jeff, but Ron expressed it so much better.

From my limited observations, it appears that most sites that are planning to
migrate in the next few years are going to do so no matter what happens to
MPE.  The sites that have decided to homestead are probably going to do so
no matter what happens to MPE.  Those that haven't decided yet, probably
the majority, will look around in a few years to see what packages and what
hardware and what operating systems have survived, and what fits with their
business at that point in time.  I really do not understand how HP's
determination
to kill MPE, even though they don't want it any more, makes business sense.


Cecile Chi