10 Mar
2020
10 Mar
'20
4:46 p.m.
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 at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 18:36 Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
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
On 3/9/20 10:19 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Some such companies spend money on advertising. A well run hobbyist
program is good advertising. It promotes brand loyalty and good PR.
but don't value the hobbyist market enough to
try to help.
Which costs them money with very likely no ROI.