Ted Ashton wrote: > I agree about the attempts to be cute and so forth. > If this message is to get there, it needs to be direct. OK, but let us be direct. My problem with HP's marketing tactics is that it undercuts my assurances to my clients that the HP e3000 belongs in their organizational IT strategy. Like the practice of medicine, marketing, should follow the motto of "first do no harm". HP marketing is harmful to the HP e3000 market position as well as the credibility of anyone who recommends a MPE/iX solution. It undercuts years of brand loyalty to the HP 3000 and to Hewlett-Packard itself. "Ted Ashton" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:3996d53a$1_1@skycache-news.fidnet.com... > Thus it was written in the epistle of Denys Beauchemin, > > > > I would suggest that we create a large card which would be signed by attendees > > at HP World and would, at the end of the week, be delivered to Carly. > > It appears to have potential. > > > could we keep the mindless chatter and cute little remarks to a > > minimum. :) > > Well, now . . . this is 3000-L after all :-) > > > From: Some concerned HP World 2000 attendees > > To: Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett-Packard Company > > Date: 1972 to September 2000. > > > > We want to respectfully inform you that we exist. > > > > We are among HP's most faithful customers and have been for a very long time. > > > > We are users of the HP e3000, running the HP invented Operating System, MPE. > > > > Our motto is "MPE Forever." > > > > Signed: > > But she already knows we exist :-). I doubt if any of the HP executives don't > know that *we* exist. I expect that many who have no clue that the 3000 exists > know about us :-). > > I agree about the attempts to be cute and so forth. If this message is to get > there, it needs to be direct. How about (with appropriate headers): > > Dear HP, > Thank you. Thank you for inventing MPE. Thank you for giving us 25 years > of worry-free computing. The operating sytem you invented is top-notch, but > many folks don't know about it. Please tell them. For your good and ours. > Thanks again. > > Signed, > > Ted > -- > Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University > ========================================================== > The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that > men will begin to think like computers. > -- Harris, Sydney J. > ========================================================== > Deep thoughts to be found at http://www.southern.edu/~ashted >