James Wowchuk <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
wrote:
 
>In last Tuesday's Australian newspaper there was an AFP wire service story
>with the headline:
>  'Hewlett-Packard drops Unix, takes up Microsoft'.
>
>The story was about the latest HP Vectra XW machine using Windows
>NT.  I'm curious to know if the local sub-editor came up with the headline,
or
>whether it came from the wire service or HP itself that way!  I'm sure it
>would send a shudder to a lot of HP-UX administrators (the poor dears).
 Who
>knows, maybe some years in the future we might see:
>  'HP drops Microsoft, takes up HP3000'
 
He probably got the idea from reading last week's issue of PC week: in the
short article announcing the Vectra XW there's a statement about observers
speculating what this announcement might mean about HP's commitment to Unix
vs. NT.
 
And get real -- the announcement we'll see some years in the future is, "HP
drops Microsoft, focuses on printers".
 
:-0
 
 -- Evan