The Ne[w|utered] HP (was: RE: The effects of employment)

Actually, although I thought that was terrible at the time, in hindsight I think it was a good thing. If HP is going to run their reputation into the ground, at least it won't take Agilent with it. Lately I've noticed that some of the Agilent facilities around here no longer have "Innovating the HP Way" on their signs. Maybe they are trying to distance themselves from it? My biggest gripe with Agilent is that their recent instruments such as the Infinium series oscilliscopes run Windows. I don't use the things myself, but I've heard horror stories from friends using them. It's a shame that they didn't use Linux, or xBSD. Some of their earlier instruments such as logic analyzers actually acted as NFS and X clients, but the networking capabilities of Windows are a huge step backwards.