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Reply To: | F. Alfredo Rego |
Date: | Wed, 18 Sep 2002 19:42:03 -0600 |
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Roy Brown wrote:
>Those of us who were regulars at the UK HPCUA Conferences,
>and with memories long enough to remember Allbase/4GL, may recall that
>HP repeatedly referred to this product when it came out as 'strategic'.
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>A year later it was gone. Indeed, my business card case may be the only
>evidence that it ever existed.
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>By analogy with 'those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make
>mad', I have always held that 'those products that HP Management wish to
>discontinue, they first make strategic'.
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>If I'd been at HPW-2001 and heard those representations, I'd have been
>*way* ahead of you re 11-14....
I just went to the very newest hp at http://www.hp.com/
and I did a search on "strategic". My heart sank when the
results came back: 1472.
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| e | http://www.adager.com
| g | F. Alfredo Rego
| a | Manager, R & D Labs
| d | Adager Corporation
| A | Sun Valley, Idaho 83353-3000 U.S.A.
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