At 03:14 PM 10/4/02 +0100, Peter Martin wrote:
>I know that HP have made a business decision to move out of the MPE arena
>because the spend outweigh the revenues, but a smaller leaner company with a
>(shock horror) Marketing department could make this work - look at how well
>the AS400 is doing!

AS400 smaller, leaner????  You've *got* to be dreaming!  IBM sold 8+ times
as many systems and clearly has deeper pockets for marketing dollars than
CSY.  They also have a heck of a lot more staff in this division, perhaps
more than CSY had back in the early mid-80's when they built their
PA-RISC architecture on the HP3000 and developed MPE/XL.