John writes:

> OpenMPE Board members and most of those who have been
>  critical of HP and OpenMPE, including myself, all know individual members
of
>  vCSY whom we believe when they say they want to do right by HP 3000 users.
>  But we have to realize these people have no control over MPE's destiny. The
>  only individual who might have been able to steer a course more agreeable
to
>  OpenMPE members was gone six months after 11/14.

Actually, the only person who might have been able to steer a course more
agreeable to OpenMPE members was gone several years before 11/14. That was, of
course, Harry Sterling.

He was the only CSY GM in recent memory to have a sufficient understanding of
the MPE customer base and the necessary backbone to stand up and generally do
what was right for the customers.

Every other GM, in my opinion, was either a complete failure or, at best, a
corporate placeholder. I have little or no regard for the succession of people
HP put in charge of CSY: people such as Helleboid, Osaka and Prather, and they
were to me the perfect personifications of why corporations above a certain
size tend to fail.

Wirt Atmar