Gavin wrote:
> Well, in the last quarter the servers group barely squeezed out a
> profit (something Carly had promised would happen) and the end of the
> quarter corresponded with the end of MPE sales, so you figure if
> there were a lot of last-minute 3000 purchases at a much higher
> profit percentage than any of the other products in the group,
> there's a chance that only by killing the 3000 did they make their
> targets for the last quarter.

Now you know there's a marketing guy who's saying in a Dilbert cartoon:

"If we get this bump in sales every quarter every time we kill a platform,
we should kill one every year and really bring in the bucks!!!"

previously Jim Alexander wrote:
> A now moot question would be this:  How many more sales and how much
> better would the quarter have been if a continuing path for MPE
> through OpenMPE would have been in place?
>
> Was this a "missed" marketing opportunity?

IBM's iSeries, a.k.a. AS/400 is much like the 3000 but with a much larger
base.  IBM appears to be trying to combine all OSs with a VM approach and at
least getting everything to one box.  I guess HP decided that the MPE base
was too small for this kind of effort.  I think it would have cost more but
kept a lot more people in the HP fold.  That in my mind was the missed
opportunity.

Mark W.