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From: mlight@hpiacla.HP.COM (Mike Light )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: product support on HPUX
Message-ID: <4650011@hpiacla.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Mar 89 12:51:27 GMT
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Organization: HP IAC - Pacific Technology Park
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>Regarding the HP9000 series 3xx, I need some information regarding product
>availability from some of the nice factory people who seem to frequent this
>group:

#ifdef CAUTION
Ah, but be Careful, my Dear Factory Fellows -

It's one thing to be nice to our customers;
It's another thing to disseminate unofficial guesses
     or to mis-set expectations
     or to give away "competitive advantage"
     or to get your knuckles rapped by upper-level managers
#endif

As for your questions, Rob, some of them can probably be
safely answered (but alas, I don't know the answers).
In general, products don't just die overnight.  In past
projects I've worked on, customers were given a 5-year
warning of any product obsolescence.  To my knowledge, however,
this is only a policy and not a law for HP products.

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