On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist <rich...@karlquist.com> wrote:
> I left Agilent just before the split, but I don't know > anyone there who liked that name. Or the logo :-) Another recent name change (acquisition) that is even worse is Aeroflex to Cobham. I realize that Cobham is probably a family name that was used when their business was started eons ago, but geez, in all these years, they couldn't have come up with a better name for the company? Even when it went from IFR to Aeroflex, that wasn't a bad name at all. In the coming fiscal year, we'll be spending close to $100K to buy some Cobham (yuck!) service monitors (or communication analyzers as they like to call them). Going to P25, the venerable HP 8920A just doesn't cut it any more. As for the $100K, we're small potatoes. I was told that an unnamed customer recently bought hundreds of units. It's like that line "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're talking real money." Joe Gray W5JG _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.