Mark Wonsil wrote:
>I want to understand HP's plan:

I feel a little irresponsible responding before the (alleged) 11/14
announcement, but for reasons I can't share, I am starting to believe this
may be a real event.  It is difficult to understand why HP would make such a
monumentally stupid move.  At a time of declining revenue, they decide to
walk away from a cash cow -- pretty strange.

I guess the expectation is that they can keep their customer base without
incurring the cost of supporting a proprietary OS.  The assumption would be
that most MPE customers would convert to HPUX or some other HP-supported OS.
If I have anything to say about it, that won't be the case here.  I think it
would be unwise to invest the effort to convert to the products of a company
that abandons its most loyal customers and seems bent on self-destruction.
Perhaps we as a user community could influence events by making it clear to
HP that killing MPE is a sure-fire way to drive us to IBM or Sun.

I hope all of this turns out to be much ado about nothing...

Of course, my opinions are my own, not my employer's.

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