"But EVA was crap from the beginning."
Great! Please, I said absolutely ZERO about whether it was a good product or not, let alone superior. I stated a fact. HP did indeed communicate to its customers that EVA would not be EOL'd by the purchase of 3PAR. I was there, I heard it, I read the communications from HP to the customer.
"but then again if you did know the technicalities throwing that FUD probably wouldn't be as much fun."
See above.