>I think the company was hijacked by its own sales department after they bought Compaq. The engineers did only what they were allowed to. Nobody in my family would ever again buy even a pencil sharpener from HP.
Scott McNealy memorably described the HP-Compaq merger as "two garbage trucks colliding".
Regards. Al
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