What I see HP is doing lately is keeping control of hardware, using someone
else's OS and totally abandoning applications.

In other words, they keep control of the body, lose their soul and let
someone else do the job.

Christian Lheureux
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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]De la
> part de Bill Brandt
> Envoyé : dimanche 9 décembre 2001 07:48
> À : [log in to unmask]
> Objet : [HP3000-L] do the right thing Carly
>
>
> Bob - I guess I've become more cynical as I've gotten older
> but I'm sure it
> would be more beneficial if she lets the Board fire her and
> collect a multi
> million severance package.
>
> And the way I am interpreting some others on this list, her
> strategies in
> re: HP's technological direction aren't in error.
>
> It's an interesting hypothesis that in the near future there
> will be only
> Windows, Linux and MVS in the server market. And the thought that some
> mission critical systems like nuclear subs might depend on
> Windows is a bit
> frightening. We have met the enemy and they are us.
>
> Maybe by Windows 2015 they'll figure out how to let the thing
> run without
> hanging.
>
> I personally feel, admittedly just an emotional feeling, that
> any company
> who allows their future to be hardware only - and allow
> others to determine
> the OS - is a very dangerous strategy. Somebody can always
> make it cheaper.
>
> But I can also understand HPs decision to end MPE - taking too much
> resources for the return. We can discuss what they could have
> done - or
> should have been doing - to let the marketplace know about
> MPE - but that
> wasn't done.
>
> Sadly I don't believe from HPs point of view that it is in
> their interest to
> release the source. How would that benefit them?
>
>
> Bill
> <<<
>
> I hope Mrs. Fiorina has enough class to resign soon and be
> replaced with someone with foresight. At the announcement
> to end HP1000 production there was a rush for HP people involved
> with the project to find other jobs. Even some of the folks that
> transferred within HP refused to have anything to do with
> the 1000 again. By announcing "the end" of the 3000 HP may have
> started a process that even they would have trouble stopping IF
> they wanted to. The smartest people will have the least problems
> finding employment.
>   Can Carly figure out where she's not wanted? Some other company
> is probably looking for a millionaire medieval history major.
>
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