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Re: HWP to be HPQ beginning Monday
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"VANCE,JEFF (HP-Cupertino,ex1)" <[log in to unmask]>
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VANCE,JEFF (HP-Cupertino,ex1)
Date:
Mon, 13 May 2002 14:59:52 -0400
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Denys writes
...
> A final thought.  The business a few years back with the unscrupulous
> resellers could not have been good. These are the people who
> sold unlicensed
> systems by illegally using a tool to diddle (excuse the
> technical term)
> stable storage on used 9000 and 3000 and created new 3000s or bigger
> licenses, without paying CSY a dime.

That cost CSY lots and lots of dollars that were not pumped back
into R&D. We lost headcount due to this activity. I don't know the
impact this had on the EOL of the 3000 (it could not have helped,
IMO), but my guess is that the 3000 EOL would have occurred anyways.

Sadly...
 Jeff Vance, CSY

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