Kim Borgman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I got the same type call about 30 minutes ago........
>
>I gave her the 'snide' remark of resurecting the HP 3K when she asked if
>there was anything she could provide....
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Cynthia Fowler [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>
>Can you believe I got ANOTHER one of these calls TODAY?!!?!?! The gal on the
>phone (not one of the other two people I've talked to about this already)
>just would not take the answer I gave her...which was basically that we are
>in a post-acquisition transition period right now that will probably last
>into early fall. "Migrating" to another computer is NOT very high on our
>list of priorities right now....gotta keep the business going. Things are
>crazy enough right now without throwing a migration into the mix! Would have
>been nice if she had at least had the courtesy to hear what I said and
>listened to me instead of trying to impose her migration agenda on me. It
>was as if my words bounced off. I've said it before. HP's timing on this was
>horrible at least from our perspective. Sheesh.
>
>I got one of those calls, too. We don't know what we're going to do yet, but
>going with 3rd party support is high on the list.....and I told him that. It
>will cost us millions to migrate and considering we are going through huge
>budget cuts.....well, you get the picture.
>
> >>> "William L. Brandt" <[log in to unmask]> 04/03/02 12:17PM >>>
>I just got a call from HP - now usually I get a laugh and this time was no
>exception - it seems that the left hand never knows what the right hand is
>doing...
>
>But the caller asked me if we have any plans to migrate - I said no. I told
>him that a lot of us HP 3000 fanatics feel that our computers will be around
>after the company is gone - and he had to laugh. He said that he was
>surprised at the loyalty he has encountered.
>
>He said that in calling HP 3000 users he has been "getting a lot of that"
>(nobody is planning on migrating). "Maybe they'll rethink their decision".
I heard differently from HP at the Solutions Symposium. Apparently,
85% (or more, "depending on how you define the percentages") of the
MPE-Image folks are happily migrating to HP-X. Interex endorses
these numbers.
I am as confused as Kim, Cynthia and Bill, because the many MPE-Image
users that I have visited all over the place (not to mention the many
with whom I have exchanged email messages and telephone conversations)
don't corroborate HP's (and Interex's) numbers. I'll admit that my
sample may be terribly flawed, because I have only communicated with
Adager customers, who tend to be a conservative bunch with IMAGE datasets
with hundreds of millions of entries (rows) and thousands of concurrent
users. But then, again, Bill Brandt is a "small" customer with a "small"
hp3000.
So, I give up trying to understand trends and such. I'll leave these
sophisticated analyses (yes, plural: more than one analysis) to the
HP marketing experts.
Back to computer programming, which is a lot more rewarding -- from my
humble human perspective.
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