HP finally makes use of the Apollo brand name (Score: 2, Informative) by marqueeblink@pipedot.org on 2014-06-17 02:12 (#24E) Apollo Computer was the original "engineering workstation" company that got started around 1980 and was an early market leader, but which lost the race to Sun. Apollo had serious technical talent but they made at least two mistakes: they developed their own operating system, and their system program language was Pascal. Re: HP finally makes use of the Apollo brand name (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-06-17 13:51 (#24J) I hope it brings them good luck! It's been depressing watching HP the past couple of years - rife mismanagement, competing strategies, and not to mention the complete gutting of the braintrust that came with purchase of Compaq and thus DEC. Then the last looney of a CEO decides they're going to give up the hardware business and focus on services. WTF?This makes me think there are still pockets of sanity in the place, which in the past couple of years, would have been hard to believe.
Re: HP finally makes use of the Apollo brand name (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-06-17 13:51 (#24J) I hope it brings them good luck! It's been depressing watching HP the past couple of years - rife mismanagement, competing strategies, and not to mention the complete gutting of the braintrust that came with purchase of Compaq and thus DEC. Then the last looney of a CEO decides they're going to give up the hardware business and focus on services. WTF?This makes me think there are still pockets of sanity in the place, which in the past couple of years, would have been hard to believe.