[Default] On 5 Jul 2018 13:37:11 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [email protected] (Wayne Bickerdike) wrote:
>DEC completely forgotten? > >I once read that HP was a printer company masquerading as a computer >company. The Tandem series successors are now on Intel Xeon or Itanium chips depending on the line and with HPE as of today, July 5, 2018. There is a COBOL 85 standard compiler for it and the manual is online. I'm surprised that HPE/non-stop hasn't gotten a larger market share. Clark Morris > >At least IBM have stuck with the mainframe. HP have buried their >technological history. > >On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 3:41 AM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In the beginning was Compaq, and HP was know for its excellent printers. >> Then the printers went downhill and there was Hewlett PacPaq, although not >> by that name. Wheile HP borged EDS, Dell borged Perot Systems. Oh, and TI >> was somewhere in that saga. And oscilloscopes. >> >> >> -- >> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz >> http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf >> of Phil Smith III <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 5:56 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: SUSE splits from Microfocus >> >> OK, kids, pay attention, because this will be on the exam. >> >> >> >> In the beginning, there was Hewlett-Packard, or HP. And HP was formless and >> huge, and darkness was upon the stock. >> >> >> >> And the Board made a decision: split the company! And thus was born Hewlett >> Packard Enterprise (HPE)-no hyphen, and please don't call us "HP >> Enterprise", not sure why, even though some of the internal URLs were at >> http://secure-web.cisco.com/1ILmwkIn_TwKCIxaQtUmzZ7IJH8TTE_ >> ZSP68ucM0phj8KaK4Fa33HWMBdfoeWOc57A98jvHuZtPDQ7GnApLEKogJr6RIDXQO_ >> XH71WF4cWNpE1c81gYGTRQ54LYb47oOQGJKjhb4Q9oJAUZQcy8xKfklRxs3Hn_ >> vF3aSW26Kv4nPvFLO6TwpN8jipYLSKUHA9BKQMRZgpsOC53R219Y9Yv1aOdK >> z6F79hro7CjLt2xgR7D_5GOXesdNrebJqWdWZEPRwlF6zmtAcM9XPtTdOMXy0mGk- >> VKH1w3Uu0iLxagCjloNuR8jA9Q2xEV2KdmVRlHERbCReSSrwRvC8ZkjC_WTNKI9oAC08fWlPy_ >> t4NwoaA4Y0UiZkYOPcw3AjiAyw4/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hpenterprise.com < >> http://secure-web.cisco.com/1ILmwkIn_TwKCIxaQtUmzZ7IJH8TTE_ >> ZSP68ucM0phj8KaK4Fa33HWMBdfoeWOc57A98jvHuZtPDQ7GnApLEKogJr6RIDXQO_ >> XH71WF4cWNpE1c81gYGTRQ54LYb47oOQGJKjhb4Q9oJAUZQcy8xKfklRxs3Hn_ >> vF3aSW26Kv4nPvFLO6TwpN8jipYLSKUHA9BKQMRZgpsOC53R219Y9Yv1aOdK >> z6F79hro7CjLt2xgR7D_5GOXesdNrebJqWdWZEPRwlF6zmtAcM9XPtTdOMXy0mGk- >> VKH1w3Uu0iLxagCjloNuR8jA9Q2xEV2KdmVRlHERbCReSSrwRvC8ZkjC_WTNKI9oAC08fWlPy_ >> t4NwoaA4Y0UiZkYOPcw3AjiAyw4/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hpenterprise.com> . HP >> remained, as "HP >> Inc." (HPQ), selling the consumer stuff: laptops, desktops, printers. HPE >> took the "S" stuff: Servers, Services, and Software. >> >> >> >> A few months after the split, HPE announced that they were doing a >> "spin/merge": the Services were going to be split off and merging with what >> was left of CSC, forming a new entity called DXC. >> >> >> >> And a while after that, HPE announced that they were selling another "S": >> the Software was being sold off to Micro Focus. >> >> >> >> So some folks went: HP==>HPE==>DXC; some went HP==>HPE==>Micro Focus; some >> went just HP==>HPE; and some even stayed as HP the whole time. >> >> >> >> Employee counts are maybe interesting-these are numbers I've seen, don't >> blame me if they're wrong: >> >> HP originally: 300,000 >> >> HPE originally, after the split: 70,000 >> >> HPE without Services: 11,000 >> >> DXC: 170,500 (that "500" is oddly precise; with 170K, you'd think it would >> fluctuate that much on a monthly/weekly/daily basis) >> >> But HP now: 50,000 (a lot are missing, eh?) >> >> Micro Focus now: 15,000 (including SUSE and HPE) >> >> >> >> If you've been confused by all this, don't feel badly-the bloody trade >> press >> can't keep it straight, and that's their job! I've seen references to Meg >> Whitman as being "CEO of HP" within the last couple of months, and yes, she >> went to HPE. Like, two years ago. So there's no excuse for (them) getting >> that wrong. >> >> >> >> Thus endeth the lesson. >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
