OK, let's see if I've got this straight.

The A/N boxes that were announced with great fanfare about 1 year ago will
be considered obsolete by 11-2003.  But, HP will convert any that are
bought with the MPE OS to HP9000's (until when ?).  But in any case, the
box itself is only supportable until the end of 2006, regardless of OS.

Furthermore, CSY has no budget for marketing and only a skeleton budget for
software development.  So not only is the large task of porting to IA64 out
of the question, but so is any relatively minor upgrade within the PA-RISC
family.

The reason the HPe3000 was cancelled was because it would cost too much to
port it to IA64 (only realized by CSY after August 2001).  There is no
market for the HPe3000 (only realized by CSY after August 2001).  [HP
announces brilliant merger (murder) strategy in September 2001].

CSY expends next to nothing for hardware development and only
produces/maintains software (MPE, languages, Image, etc.).  Yet CSY cannot
make a profit, while the HP-UX side of the same coin is the wave of the
future worth pursuing for future business and can bear the burden of these
types of costs plus hardware development.

The merger with Compaq will not ruin HP  --  the HP I knew died long before
the merger plan was hatched.

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