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Re: OpenMPE Minutes for October 9th.
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John Lee <[log in to unmask]>
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John Lee <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:41:24 -0600
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Peter-

OpenMPE just wants the source code, as I understand it.  Then they'll run 
with it.  HP is not being asked to do anything.  In fact, I think it's the 
opposite of asking HP to make an investment...OpenMPE wants to take over 
MPE in its entirety and HP can be rid of it.

I'm sure I'll be corrected if I've misspoken!

John Lee

At 02:24 PM 10/27/08 -0700, Peter M. Eggers wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Johnson, Tracy <
>[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > That said, if there are only 89 "voting" OpenMPE members (as of last
> > election), and 2 board members rotate out in of the Board every year
> > since 2001, then about 15% of the "voting" OpenMPE population will have
> > ended up being part of the process!
> >
>
>What does the graph of "voting" OpenMPE members look like over time?  I
>think your 15% maybe a bit pessimistic in the longer term.
>
>More importantly, what does the graph of "paying" HP3000 users look like
>over time?  This is essential when HP makes decisions on placation vs. doing
>something, especially when overlaid with HP's HP3000/MPE costs.  These
>graphs are something HP looks at every budgeting and business strategy
>cycle, and without an upside, or some brilliant plan to create an upside
>that HP execs will buy into, what do you think they are going to do?
>
>Placation is relatively cheap, doing something requires the promise of
>profit to undertake, and the higher the risk of failure, the higher the
>potential profit needs to be.  The things that loom prominently in the risk
>assessment are how to keep hardware (PA-RISC) and software (MPE) competive
>profitably with the competion (Intel, AMD, IBM, Sun; and Linux, MS Windows,
>Solaris).  Therein lies the fate of MPE and the HP3000.
>
>Peter
>
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