[geeks] HP's squandering

[Eric Dittman]

> >>>>    Are they discontinuing the HP-3000?  Last I heard (which 
> >>>> admittedly
> >>>> was a while ago) it was still going strong.
> >>>
> >>> HP has announced end-of-life for MPE.  The HP-3000 systems
> >>> will no longer be manufactured, but they are just HP-9000
> >>> derivatives.
> >>
> >>    Wow...There are a LOT of big HP3000s installed at banks and such.
> >
> > There are a LOT of pissed customers, too.
> 
>    Hmm.
> 
>    Well, what does Fiorina care.  She and her friends are getting rich, 
> and that's all that matters!

Sun and IBM like the decision.  The pissed-off customers are
more likely to go Sun or IBM than HP.
-- 
Eric Dittman
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