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From: rfh3273@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com (Dick Harrigill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: ADUS Ban
Message-ID: <438@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com>
Date: 20 Jun 91 22:01:26 GMT
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In article <434@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com> rfh3273@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com 
(Dick Harrigill) writes:
>I therefore request to the officers of ADUS (APOLLO DOMAIN USER'S
>SOCIETY) that this non-Domain box be banned from the upcoming
>ADUS conference (except in the vendor booth area), and that HP
>not be allowed to make any presentations concerning this box.

Sorry for the follow-up to myself, but I left out the end:

The reason for proposing this ban may be a way of getting HP's attention.  
To specifically demand that HP make no formal mention of their newest 
"pride & joy" may actually get a point across to someone.
It is clear that Apollo is being dealt a death blow.  We need a defense.  
We need a dramatic "wake up and smell the coffee" action.  Since the
700 is NOT APOLLO and is NOT DOMAIN, it does not belong at an APOLLO
DOMAIN group.  If HP is allowed to present this box, please invite Sun to
present the SPARC, IBM the RS6000, etc.   After all, fair is fair.  If
Apollo is to die, we need to know what ALL our options are.  HP is but one
option.

I would rather be a first class customer with a slightly inferior product, 
than be a second class customer.  Apollo users are HP's second class customers.  

Judge HP not by what they say (as their proper verbage so eloquantly tries 
to ease our minds);  judge them by what they do.


-- 
Dick Harrigill, an independent voice from:     Boeing Commercial Airplanes 
M/S 9R-49  PO BOX 3707                       Renton Avionics/Flight Systems
Seattle, WA  91824                                  Computing Support
(206) 393-9539     rfh3273@galileo.rtn.ca.boeing.com