Having worked for them in also not surprised. When they absorbed Compaq their culture changed. Significantly for the worse.
I'd be stunned if they existed in a form other that selling printers and ink cartridges in 5 years time. On Wed, 11 Mar. 2020, 10:42 am Patrick Finnegan via cctalk, < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 18:36 Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > > > > > On 3/9/20 10:19 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > >> but don't value the hobbyist market enough to try to help. > > > > > > Which costs them money with very likely no ROI. > > > > Some such companies spend money on advertising. A well run hobbyist > > program is good advertising. It promotes brand loyalty and good PR. > > > > Based on my day to day interactions with HPE as a company, this action > doesn't surprise me at all. They don't seem to want to do anything that > isn't directly "extracting value." > > Pat > > > >