Sletten Kenneth W KPWA wrote:
>
> John Burke notes:
>
> > I'm not sure I'd get too exercised about a brief conference call
> > with Financial Analysts, otherwise known in my lexicon as
> > walletheads.
>
> While from one perspective John's above point is well taken,
> the problem is that corporate CIO's and etc. listen or at least
> take account of what the "walletheads" are or are *not* saying.
> If their technical subordinates come to them with a proposal
> for a solution that involves an HP 3000, the CIO may just
> remember the report of an interview with Carly as reported by
> the trade rags.  If what the CIO remembers is that "Carly said
> NT and UNIX were strategic directions for HP, but MPE and
> the HP 3000 are not on the list", that's bad....

That would be a most unfortunate circumstance.  Decisions for the benefit
of the stock market and decisions about mission critical business systems
really aren't the same thing and shouldn't be confused - however, we all
know it happens!

Besides sending messages to HP/Carly, the other thing we can all do is do
our level best to keep MPE moving along with exceptional applications that
businesses depend upon.

>
> Ken Sletten


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