I doubt if HP is going to piss off it's customer base.

Even if HP has no record of a machine, usually due to age or a series of owners, then the WORST HP can do is charge for 19
months of support before putting your software back on support. How do I know this? Because with Y2K coming all the old
machines, the ones whose operating systems that haven't been upgraded since MPE/iX 3.0, are going to HP and purchasing
MPE/iX 5.5 patch 4; I've guided a number of companies through the process with HP.

Paul Courry


On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:03:04 -0600, John Lee wrote:

>At 05:41 AM 3/23/99 -0800, Shawn Gordon wrote:
>>Check out http://www.hp.com/pressrel/mar99/19mar99.htm if you haven't
>>already seen.  This is sad for folks in my area because Abtech was a real
>>quality reseller, the support was top notch and the machines always looked
>>like new.
>
>
>We had a pretty good working relationship with them, and I agree with what
>Shawn says above.  But I always wondered where they obtained legally
>licensed hardware so inexpensively.
>
>Just a word of warning -  having dealt with HP and licenses as much as I
>have, those who purchased any systems without legal licenses or with
>altered firmware or whatever may find their systems unsupportable by HP.
>Plan ahead.
>
>John Lee
>Vaske Computer Solutions
>Minneapolis, MN
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