Hi all,
I have read with interest some of the "thread" re MPE and
opensource.....has anyone put together a serious proposal that includes
perhaps money etc that would influence positively HP management re MPE
and possibly IMAGE as viable opensource projects...it won't do if it's
someone inside...nope, it's not going to be me...because of my former
role as the internet marketing manager in CSY and I'm also not the
right person anyway... a customer(s) or/and partner(s)...I know this is
a difficult, daunting task but that's ok...my small community on the
California coast just "beat out" Goliath...we bought from Corporate
America and Corporate Europe(with a large bond) our local water
infrastructure and for the first time in many years re have local
control over a part of our survival "water"...they said it couldn't be
done and due to hard work and the major support of the community (yes,
the paying of the bond back will show up in my property taxes..that's
not the point) we did it... using the 22.9 percent below might get
their attention....forgive me if this has already been done but if
not...go get em.
Thanks,
Peggy
Peggy F. Ruse
Ruse Consulting
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On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 05:25 PM, Roy Brown wrote:
> In message
> <[log in to unmask]>,
> Sletten Kenneth W KPWA <[log in to unmask]> writes
>> Y'all may have seen current Interex "InstaPoll" results at:
>> http://www.hpuseradvocacy.org/
>> index.cfm?pollDisplay=results&QuestionID=58
>>
>> Fairly interesting, even though only 118 votes total so far:
>> "What plans does your company have for apps on e3000 ?". As
>> of just after high noon US PDT Thurs 25 Sept:
>>
>> 3.4 percent have migrated.
>> 5.1 percent planning to migrate within 12 months.
>> 7.6 percent planning to migrate within 24 months.
>> 21.2 percent planning to migrate, time not set.
>> 22.9 percent hoping for OpenSource.
>> 39.8 percent are Homesteading.
>>
>> i.e.: Only 16 percent have migrated or plan to migrate within
>> two years FROM RIGHT NOW; which is already nearly two years
>> since HP announced EOL for the e3000.
>>
>> Just what Interex meant "OpenSource" to mean in this context
>> might be subject to a bit of interpretation, but if it's fair
>> to generally lump OpenSource and Homesteading as at least
>> somewhat "together", that sez that of the 118 people voting so
>> far nearly 2/3 still have no plans to migrate. That's higher
>> than I would have expected at this point.
>>
>> Ken Sletten
>
> You might want to consider whether Open MPE is a self-selecting
> mechanism for OpenSource fond-hopers, and for Homesteaders who fell
> they
> might need a fallback option, and so the results of such a poll might
> be
> skewed accordingly.
>
> Those with firm migration plans which they are confident will come to
> fruition, be that pre- or even slightly post- EOL, are not likely to be
> OpenMPE denizens.
>
> --
> Roy Brown 'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to
> be
> Kelmscott Ltd useful, or believe to be beautiful' William Morris
>
>
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