Christine, At the risk of appearing to beat a dead horse allow me to note a important contrast between a statement in your email and how Ann Livermore was quoted in the article. You wrote that "HP's corporate strategy continues to focus on winning UNIX, NT and Linux market share." Sad for the faithful perhaps but true, the HP 3000 no longer is the number one marketing focus for HP. That part I understand. Livermore's comments, however, said nothing of strategic focus or market share. As quoted in the article her comments were categorical: "we have a multi-operating system strategy: HP-UX, Linux and NT." HP-UX, Linux, and NT. Period. Full stop. The simple interpretation of that statement is that those three, and only those three, operating systems constitute HP's area of interest. I find it hard to reconcile to my customers claims that HP continues to actively develop and support the HP e3000 against quotes such as the one from Livermore. Contrast that statement with something like: For most customers we offer a multi-operating system strategy: HP-UX, Linux, and NT. For some vertical markets and the existing HP e3000 customer base we also continue to develop our proprietary MPE/iX operating system. Now that is a truly multi-operating systems strategy that offers the best solution for each customer along with continuity and investment protection. - Cortlandt