Ken,


>>As they looked at each other's books, the guys in the clean room were
>>floored by the contrasts: >HP lost $100 million a quarter on an
>>industry-standard product called NetServer but made money >on a
proprietary
>>model.

>Not sure what they are talking about but we can dream.

Technically, HPUX would be considered proprietary, so there profit could
have come from there; but we were told that CSY/MPE was profitable when
dealt its deathblow.  It's just that the profits were shrinking and there
was no salable idea of how to change or work within the environment to
reverse the shrinkage.  The expectation was that by the time the EOL and EOS
dates arrived, they would be at or below profitability and their business
decision was to get out while the getting was good.

I have no doubt that had Carly wanted MPE and the 3000 lines to succeed,
they would have.  She may take a load of crap from us, but you have to give
her credit for getting done whatever she wants to get done.

I would not be surprised, however, after reading of the "clean room" in
which the choice of one company's or the other's product line in each
business was selected, that the contractual obligation of Compaq to support
their midline proprietary systems to governments around the country for n
years to come, may have given the Paq side of HPaq more weight in that
decision.  This, of course, is all based on the extrapolated assumption that
the decision to end MPE was made by someone NOT of CSY.


Just being smarmy,

:)
Rs~

Russ Smith
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