Ron brings up an interesting point. I see little about what HP plans to do during that time after sales end until the end of life date. The five year plan indicated: "HP will continue to provide a broad portfolio of support services for the HP e3000 until December 31, 2006 . . .". So which support services will be continued? Will the renamed publication contain less content about the HP e3000? Or, more importantly, will HP reduce the resources on coverage of changes to the HP e3000? Most importantly, will HP reduce the resources on creation of changes to the HP e3000? My opinion is that the "broad portfolio of support services" should include patches and documentation of the patches. -- Per Ford Motor Company's Corporate Systems Manual section 2.4.25: "the opinions expressed in the article are the opinions of the author, not of Ford Motor Company. " "Ron Seybold" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:3db7f2ad$1@skycache-news.fidnet.com... > <SNIP> once HP steps away from sales of the system in a year, there's bound > to be a lot less that HP wants to tell you about MPE. >< SNIP> * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *