Jon noted an interesting development:

> One of the Senior Editors at ComputerWorld is doing an
> article on OpenMPE :)  His deadline is quickly approaching,
> but he would like to talk with a few end users from the
> community.  If you would be interested and willing to talk
> with him today or tomorrow, please reply to me and I will
> arrange it.

I would love to talk to him...  BUT (unfortunately):  Getting
myself quoted in print is potentially a big problem;  i.e.:
Remember:  I'm a Federalli.  I've been quoted and interviewed
in the 3000 NewsWire a number of times, but that's such a
limited distribution mag that I've felt fairly safe;  plus I
know Ron Seybold very well and he ID's me as "Chairman of
SIGImage/SQL" or etc.  The Computerworld type would probably
want (quite reasonably) to know where I work...  and to have
something like, say:

"Ken Sletten, a software engineer for the US Navy at the
Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Keyport, WA, said ...".

... appear in ComputerWorld would definitely be "not smart"
on my part.  If it got noticed by anybody in my Command all
the way back to NAVSEA in DC, then...  well, let's just say
that would have the potential to become more than a little
"uncomfortable";  i.e.:  We're supposed to get any public
statements cleared by the PR flacks ahead of time;  and in
this case even asking would probably be "not smart" on my
part:  I might get asked:  "What are you doing on the OpenMPE
BOD ?"...  Nope:  Not a good idea for me...  Sadly, because an
article in Computerworld is a major opportunity to get some
wide-spread PR.

But...:  I certainly hope those of you in the private sector
will not shrink from talking to Computerworld.  I would also
urge you to not pull any punches:  We don't want to say
anything to unnecessarily antagonize HP, but we want to tell
the straight story;  IMO.

Ken