Lee Gunter writes:

>On Tuesday, July 15, 1997 4:30 PM, Ron Seybold
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>> Hello Friends:
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>On Tuesday, July 15, 1997 4:30 PM, Ron Seybold
>[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] wrote:
>> Hello Friends:
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>The fact that yet another significant application is disappearing from
>the HP3000 is bad enough, but the most disturbing thing in this
>"Newswire" issue was the cheeseball comment by HP's David Greene in the
>article regarding HP's new Pervasive Solutions Council:
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>     "I don't think our customers are expecting that MPE is going to
>     be there as the first supported environment on HP's latest and
>     greatest hardware technologies."
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>What a shortsighted, low-blow comment for HP to make!! ... especially
>in light of their recent PR re: the new long-term outlook for MPE.  I
>sincerely hope that this is one person's uneducated view of the world
>and not representative of HP's real philosophy.

Maybe David Greene needs to spend more time "listening". He has never
asked me what I think (not that HP cares!). I doubt many on this list
have been consulted as well.

Cheeseball - I like that! Maybe we can get an audience with him at
HPWorld and find out where he's coming from.

Duane 'still selling a Web Server for the HP 3000' Percox