I made no assumptions, just an observation of a coincidence.  Recall that I
stated my wonder as to where Jeff V. was prior to reading Wirt's post.

BTW, tell Jeff we all said HI!

Ray Shahan

"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans", John Lennon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Bixby [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 11:34 AM
> To:   Shahan, Ray
> Cc:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: The Future of MPE
>
> You assume too much.
>
> Jeff Vance has voluntarily cut back on his HP3000-L presence so he will
> have
> more time to focus on the post-2003 and post-2006 issues that are the most
>
> important to MPE customers.  He asked me to monitor HP3000-L in his
> absence,
> and to alert him when any "Future of MPE" threads appear.  I have
> forwarded him
> Wirt's initial post in this thread.  Jeff is currently out of the office
> but
> will be back next week.
>
> - Mark B. (busy executing an Internet & Interoperability roadmap to ensure
>
> supportability beyond 2003)
>
> Shahan, Ray wrote:
>
> > Just yesterday afternoon, I was wondering why the always reliable and
> > available Jeff Vance has posted little to no answers to the list for so
> > long, and then Wirt comments:
> >
> >
> >         "I no longer have any faith that anyone at HP in a position of
> > responsibility
> >         is looking out for the best interests of the MPE user community.
> The
> > people
> >         in the former CSY are being personally graded by how well and
> how
> > many MPE
> >         users they move over to HP-UX, thus they are intrinsically
> working
> > at
> >       cross-purposes to the MPE user community."
> >
> > Hmmm...
>
>
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