Off-topic, but interesting (Fiorina fired)

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Well the storage business is certainly "glued on" -- it's mostly a combination
of Compaq remnants, stuff licensed from Hitachi, and stuff resold from tape
vendors.  But HP does have very strong servers.  They also have a thriving
services business that has its share of billion-dollar wins against EDS and
IBM.

--- Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com> wrote:

> >>>>> "Tony" == Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
>  Tony> But will the replacement be any better? I doubt very much HP
>  Tony> will go back to being a top-class test equipment company...
> 
> Obviously not.  The test equipment company still exists and is still
> top class, but its name is Agilent.  HP is just a PC printer company,
> with a pile of miscellaneous other stuff glued on the side.
> 
>      paul
> 
> 


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