On Aug 12, 2016, at 11:15 AM, Fred Cisin <cisin at
xenosoft.com> wrote:
On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Mazzini Alessandro wrote:
It was not enough to have mishandled vms, and
killed palm. Now they want to destroy also what's left of SGI ?
Better I don't say what I'm really thinking...
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for men of good conscience to remain
silent."
Apollo, DEC, Compaq, Ericsson, Palm, . . .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Hewlett-Packard
If HP and Microsoft merged, would it put an end to computers?
No, but it might put an end to the resulting company.
Note that HP didn't acquire DEC, or Palm; both had been absorbed by other companies
well before HP swooped in to grab those. For example, I don't think anything was left
of Palm long before HP bought up the remnants of 3Com.
paul