Ron brings up an interesting point. I see little about what HP plans to do
during that time after sales end until the end of life date.  The five year
plan indicated:

"HP will continue to provide a broad portfolio of support services for the
HP e3000 until December 31, 2006 . . .".

So which support services will be continued?
Will the renamed publication contain less content about the HP e3000?

Or, more importantly, will HP reduce the resources on coverage of changes to
the HP e3000?
Most importantly, will HP reduce the resources on creation of changes to the
HP e3000?
My opinion is that the "broad portfolio of support services" should include
patches and documentation
of the patches.

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"Ron Seybold" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> <SNIP> once HP steps away from sales of the system in a year, there's
bound
> to be a lot less that HP wants to tell you about MPE.
>< SNIP>

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