Cortlandt Wilson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Given the current HP marketing strategy - don't acknowledge the '3000
>as a HP platform because it just confuses people - the answer is
>never.
>
><crystal ball on>  Some day I expect to see MBA case studies of HP's
>marketing failures.   One section will be called  "Giving away the
>'crown jewels' ".   Maybe they will even quote your letter as an
>example of how the marketing 'experts' ignored the warnings from the
>user community.


USA Today carried an article on August 1 (page 3A, U.S.A. edition),
"Investigators look at Concorde tire incidents" (1979 flight bears
similarities to last week's crash).

Among the passengers was Bill Lightfoot, an aircraft salesman who
was taking the flight on June 14, 1979, to the Paris Airshow.
The article includes these paragraphs, which echo Cortlandt's
ideas:

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While on the 1979 flight, Lightfoot saw a metallic object fly in
front of his window. He craned his head enough to be able to see
the surface of the wing out of the small window at his seat.

He immediately attempted to notify flight attendants but was
told that there was no problem. His repeated efforts to warn the
crew fell on deaf ears as the minutes ticked by and the speed
increased toward Mach 1. "It was like a bad dream," he recalls.

Finally, after [Lightfoot's] threatening to bash in the cockpit door,
the copilot came to the rear of the jet. Lightfoot says he shoved
the doubting pilot toward his window. "He says, 'Mon dieu.' The guy
just turned ashen. ... He turned around and he zipped up the aisle.
The instant he got to the cockpit, you could feel them jerk the
throttles back."

The damaged jet landed at Dulles about 20 minutes after takeoff.
No one was injured.
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The article is at http://www.usatoday.com/news/ndsmon11.htm



Mon dieu,

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