Mathew In response to your e-mail. Our company would greatly benefit by upgrading our 9x9 systems to 7.5. Due to the inherent third party costs associated with migrating to an A or N class system prohibits us from following this path. If we wanted to get on the latest platform release of this system our only option is to install 7.x on our 9x9 systems Zelik -----Original Message----- From: OpenMPE Support Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Matthew Perdue Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 3:39 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: 9x7's to run 7.0 or 7.5 - your comments needed NOW! Hello all. As promised the issue of modifying MPE 7.0/7.5 to run on the 9x7 series has been raised with HP by OpenMPE, including some back and forth discussions. What is needed now is for the user community that would directly benefit from this change in HP's position to speak up and make yourselves heard - and HP *IS* listening. The greater user community will benefit from additional sites that can perform beta patch testing and certification, so your input will help as well. Please let HP know your company's reasons why you want the 9x7 series to run 7.0 and 7.5 - give solid examples. It may be an issue that the IT budget is extremely tight (who doesn't have that problem?) and there just isn't the money to upgrade to a 9x9 box, no matter how cheap they may be, and license upgrade issues from third party software suppliers has to be considered as well. It may be an issue that your test box is a 9x7 on 6.5 and your production box is 9x? on 7.0 or 7.5 (or an A or N class) and your company's policy prohibits software migrations from the test environment to the production environment if the operating systems are not at the same release level. Whatever the reason, financial, technical, policy or otherwise, let HP know, and please let them know now! Let HP know if you feel this is a decision best made by the customers and not the supplier; after all, you and your company know your company's needs far better than HP. Make the case - HP is listening! For support issues give examples that HP can investigate (have your paperwork handy). If your company has been paying support and you feel the quality of support provided has been slipping the past couple of years - tell HP and tell them now! Please make your comments known on the -L and OpenMPE discussion lists, and please take the time to take the HP customer survey at http://www.hpcustomersurvey.org/ and if you wish write in your comments in the various areas the survey provides. Thank you for your input. THIS E-MAIL IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE ADDRESSEE(S) AND MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. IF YOU ARE NOT THE INTENDED RECIPIENT, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT ANY USE OF THIS INFORMATION OR DISSEMINATION, DISTRIBUTION OR COPYING OF THIS E-MAIL IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS E-MAIL IN ERROR, PLEASE NOTIFY THE SENDER IMMEDIATELY BY RETURN E-MAIL AND DELETE THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE.THANK YOU.