Roy Brown said (in part):

But in a different universe, a different CEO might well have decided
that the rearrangement of HP would take a different tack. As a result of
which, the long-standing injustice that CSY did not get the benefit of
the HP3000/MPE support revenues might have been corrected.

And does anyone want to dispute that if this had happened, the HP3000
would not suddenly have looked like a very profitable operation that any
business would be crazy to terminate?
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It appears the profits from support contracts for the HP3000 are enough,
even to this day, that the support division/group/whatever-you-call-them
doesn't want to give up that business, and will continue to "milk that cash
cow" as long as the milk, uh... money, flows.

Does anyone think the millions of dollars that HP gets from support
contracts for the HP3000 hasn't played a part in the extension of support
(including "support without sustaining engineering") what, three times,
after HP's first official "end of life" announcement?

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