Wirt wrote:

> 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.
>

I generally agree with everything Wirt says. However, my point was that if
we believe Winston Prather that the decision to shut down CSY and the HP
3000 was his, then he was the only member of CSY at that time who would have
been able to steer a course more favorable to those who want to see MPE at
least exist if not thrive past 2006.

John