>>In HP's defense, they produce an awful lot of machines and customers often vote with their wallets, reliably choosing a $100 cheaper machine with a flexing plastic case over an aluminium competitor with higher quality parts.
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>I suspect that Hewlett and Packard wouldn't recognize the present iteration of the company they created.
>In retrospect Carly's insistence on buying Compaq, which I thought was whacky at the time, might have been a wise move.
Scott McNealy (then of Sun) said that the merger was "like two garbage trucks colliding".
One of the most memorable business quotes of this century ;)
Regards. Al
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