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.... Ken Sletten