I would have to agree with Carol.  The presenters today demonstrated a firm
grasp of the obvious.  There was little or no useful information offered.  I
hope that this insultingly shallow presentation was simply the baseline for
future presentations of greater depth.

-----Original Message-----
From: carol darnell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 12:12 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: today's webcast


Tracy -
If it helps, I must suggest that you didn't miss much of import.  I did
register early, dialed in early, and heard painfully little that addressed
the reality of 'what now'?  Where do we go where performance, security, and
resilience are critical?  Where do we go when our applications are designed
and tuned to take optimal advantage of a highly efficient and fast DBMS,
and the relational model just doesn't cut it?  Where do we go when the
current and projected business climate says that the resources to totally
redesign and re-write Transact (for example) applications simply aren't
there?  Why was the very mention of Eloquence relegated to a brief response
to a listener's question?  Considering the impending demise of Allbase, and
the needed port of Allbase applications, including those running on HPUX,
to some other handler, what real inducements do we have to remain in the HP
family and not look elsewhere?  Where does Tandem fit in the 'migration'
framework (presuming... always presuming)?
I'd love to know what some of the other web-submitted questions were - none
of mine and terribly few of anyone else's were presented.

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