Comment by mrweasel

Comment by mrweasel 6 days ago

HP had everything, hardware business, multiple CPU designs, operating system (quite a few actually), they where hiring Linux developers pretty early on, an extensive software portfolio (mostly enterprise stuff that I can do without, but companies bought it) and had I'd say fairly good working relationship with software partners, like Oracle and Microsoft.

Now you have two HPs:

- HPE, pretty much a shell of a company. Maintainers of HP-UX, (former) maker of Itanium servers and caretaker of Cray (but also the company that seems to have misplaced the Irix source code).

- HP, Maker of shitty printer products and expensive toner.

How do you go from having everything to be a joke of a company/companies?

HeckFeck 6 days ago

> HPE

Also with one of the worst logos ever. Have you seen RECTANGLE? It encapsulates our venerable company in two dimensional space. It's at least honest - Three dimensions would imply we're solid, and four would imply that we're moving anywhere.

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mrweasel 6 days ago

Oh shit, that's their logo? I don't exactly know what I though it was, but I didn't consider that it might be their logo.

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- HeckFeck 6 days ago
  
  It's so subtle you can't even tell! That's what you get when you commission with a blank cheque.
  
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geodel 6 days ago

> How do you go from having everything to be a joke of a company/companies?

First slowly and then suddenly.

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geodel 6 days ago

Well if autonomy bet worked out well they could have challenged Google. :)

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harrydehal 6 days ago

Worth pointing out that HPE also acquired Aruba Networks and Juniper Networks – not sure how both those networking portfolios look like post-acquisition.

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bc569a80a344f9c 6 days ago

HPE wants to buy Juniper. The DOJ has blocked the deal and that lawsuit is expected to play out next month.

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mrweasel 6 days ago

True, both are solid networking companies in my opinion. Juniper is already slipping on support and pricing though, and we'll be replacing all our Juniper gear starting this summer.

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eGQjxkKF6fif 6 days ago

Simple. The execs steal all the innovative IP, start new ventures, drain HP dry with its encredible decision making; completely fuck the Linux devs, use their works and contributions to OSS in the new ventures and then new waves of innovation/competition came about and what was settled upon was whatever looked profitable on quarterlies so servers, and printers.

I'm not saying that's what happened. But, it's a capitalistic type world.

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