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Russ asks:
> Does anybody know why ?

I believe everyone involved considers this change to be a Good Thing(tm).

The product will now be directly owned by the company that wrote
it and supports it, who will not have to deal with the HP
bureaucracy when it comes to deciding what enhancements to fund, etc.

There were also concerns by a number of people that they could
not be sure that HP wouldn't suddenly stop supporting Eloquence
the way that they stopped supporting MPE.  The only way to
completely allay people's fears that HP would stop supporting it
was to get HP to stop supporting it :-)

In fact I think you'll find that significant forces are in motion
to provide expanding worldwide support and accelerating growth
for the Eloquence product, especially in terms of its use as a
TurboImage replacement.  Some URLs that may be interesting:

   http://www.eloquence3000.com/

   http://www.mbfoster.com/enews/press_releases.cfm?Open=152

as well as:

   http://www.hp-eloquence.com/transition/

G.

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