>The cynic sez that all business have just one aim: Earn as much money >as is possible. ...Hewlett-Packard realized that they were in the money >business, and prospered. Does Hewlett-Packard still make instruments? >I don't know, but I'll bet that they don't care, one way or the other.
HP is an example of a company that went too far. Under Carlie Fiorina they got rid of much of their engineering talent. The only thing that keeps HP in business are the buying habits of dumb IT managers who can't tell apart the good from the bad. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
