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The heavy lift...
that HP is going to carry on; long after I'm gone
happy late-Compaq/Digital rivalry.

Pre-Compaq employees still think Compaq is alive
and well; kicking A$$ as when Compaq Despro 286e
hitted street. Sales guys were/are well trained
selling short time sales cycle Desktop PC and
Windows Server Boxes. Honestly they were King
of the Hill. 19xx BC

DEC employees were fired w/o hesitation, quickly
replaced by good old loyal Compaq Account/Sales
employees.

Thing started to get bad once they realize that
selling/supporting Alpha stuff wasn't as easy as
selling PC. On top, support cost of those pieces,
cost money; lots of it. To the point that PC and
Windows server sales wasn't enough. Dealing with
Unix guys and CIO wasn't about price after all!!.

Pre-Digital, still are soaring and dreaming on
Alpha/PDP-11 golden era. Many watched HP take-
over as DEC soul saviors. Opps HP wasn't after
Alpha/Dec/PSP HW... HP was interested on its SW.
Named True64. Double ooops.

Pre-Tandem. To make it short, they see themself
as Albert Eintein of Computing. They are good,
very good, only on what they know. They do their stuff sale its stuff, but no one knows nothing
about it.

HP never was/is quite fond to PC business.
Always trailing/dragging on this arena.

HP Love 3K, 9K servers. HP-UX, OpenView....

Printing? always very successful arm but never
had been a driven forced within. (Fear to be
watch as Epson alike only? I do think so.

Pre-HP employees saw Compaq as good cloners, big
mouth brats, with no innovation at all, just price
butchers.

Carly push very hard on HP employees patience, when Mediun management level was fulfilled with Compaq guys... an error aging. Compaq was very
hierarchy structured, HP though was too, top
management access was damn easy. Compaq mid Managers didn't liked former HP Management Way.
Fortunately, pre-HP employees were not minimized
by Management bravado. As of today most mid and
top management had been replaced with former
pre-HP employees again!!

Unfortunately under this long lasting Hurracane
HP's market presence had been deeply affected.
key business area hitted over and over again.
Very sad to heard so many people fired.
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Guess that shoots the crap out of an earlier story  Squawkbox | 07/14/05
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Thanks John  Squawkbox | 07/14/05
Nope  mabricen | 07/15/05
Blew that!  John L. Ries | 07/15/05
Another Correction sorry  mabricen | 07/15/05
Steve Jobs biography  Anton Philidor | 07/15/05
Thanks Gents and ladies(?) (ya never know)  Squawkbox | 07/15/05
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I don't think it's as serious as all that, Michael.  mustangj36@... | 07/14/05
Marketing driven companies grow faster  mlindl | 07/15/05
Wall Street likes layoffs.  Anton Philidor | 07/15/05
Low pay does not = high profitability  furl12@... | 07/15/05
Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear enough in  mustangj36@... | 07/15/05
Why can't I find a way to really like this company?  mlindl | 07/15/05
My HP rep  Roger Ramjet | 07/15/05
What if Steve Jobs came over to HP!  Reverend MacFellow | 07/15/05
The heavy lift...  mabricen | 07/15/05
At least the sales staff have been recognized.  Anton Philidor | 07/15/05
Walmart Shoppers Rejoice!!!  Paco20 | 07/15/05
...and the good news is...  Art Royce | 07/16/05

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