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Actually the failure would be just thinking about moving away from a stable
MPE environment. The act of going through with it just let's everyone know
you have money to throw away.
-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Brown [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 1:44 PM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] HP WORLD 2002 (long)
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<[log in to unmask]>, John
Burke <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Wirt writes:
>> What I hear from our customers are two things: The first is, "I just
>>want to keep the HP3000 alive long enough (five to ten years) for me
>>retire," obviously meaning, "Let it be someone else's problem." The
>>second is, "There's no way that I can go to my boss and tell him that
>>because HP screwed us over we need to spend one to two million
>>dollars migrating our code over to a new box and have me look good."
>How about 5 plus years and $30 million dollars to go from a home grown
>MPE-IMAGE system to SAP? True story. And this is considered a success.
Of course it is. The failures are when they spend that much time and
money, and *still* don't make it off MPE/Image...
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Roy Brown 'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd useful, or believe to be beautiful' Wm Morris
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