HP Forum Archive 13

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Cringely Comment on HP Message #1 Posted by Les Bell [Sydney] on 13 July 2003, 1:19 a.m. This from Infoworld's weekly "Cringely" column (yeah, it's not really Cringely, but what the heck, Norm is going to love this one anyway): "Hewlett-Packard is giving a leave of absence -- so to speak -- to storage, despite higher hopes it may have once held. HP called a mole at 8 o'clock one evening last week and fired him on the phone. Pretty nice, eh? My good man was a storage specialist, and his Midwest regional manager told him that HP wasn't going to spend any more money trying to sell storage. "If customers want to buy it, they can have it," the manager commented. In character, HP's financial folks did some fancy math to calculate that two weeks of severance pay per year for six years of service amounted to nine weeks for the forlorn and forgotten. And I thought the HP Way meant treating people with dignity?" Looks like the New HP calculates severance pay on a 12C Platinum. . . . Best, --- Les [http://www.lesbell.com.au]

what is HP storage? Message #2 Posted by Norm on 13 July 2003, 2:11 a.m., in response to message #1 by Les Bell [Sydney] I did not know HP was into the storage business. I can rent an 8 x 8 for $75 a month out here, put old motorcycle parts and paint cans and stuff into it so I have more room in my garage.

Re: what is HP storage? Message #3 Posted by Les Bell [Sydney] on 13 July 2003, 3:49 a.m., in response to message #2 by Norm Norm, I swear you are proof positive that the new HP was right to get out of the storage business. At any rate, storage means big disk drives on network servers where MBA's store their massive, undocumented, untested and undebugged Excel spreadsheets - the ones on which those multi-million dollar decisions depend. I guess the reason they don't need to sell storage outside the company is that they are now their own best customer. . . Best, --- Les [http://www.lesbell.com.au]

Re: what is HP storage? Message #4 Posted by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) on 13 July 2003, 9:09 a.m., in response to message #3 by Les Bell [Sydney] This is pure gold! Quote: (...)the reason they don't need to sell storage outside the company is that they are now their own best customer. . . I haven't read better in the past weeks. It would be hilarious if not so damn serious... and sad. Best regards. Luiz (Brazil)

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