RE: HP going out

2011-08-19 Thread Eldridge, Dave
All I would say is look at what happened when ibm sold their pc business to Lenovo. Without googling, what were the issues then that people were afraid of? Did Lenovo acquire the warranty business also or did someone else purchase that? Way back when I had a Compaq computer that required service a

Re: HP going out

2011-08-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Mathew Shember wrote: > Old HP tended to honor stuff for life.    I know they were patching Apollo > long after it was dead.    I remember installing a patch 10 or so years > ago…….. New HP, in contrast, sometimes doesn't honor warranties within the terms of the

Re: HP going out

2011-08-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:44 PM, C.E. Gene Connor wrote: > Will the new buyer have to stand behind what we are now getting from HP ?? I think that will depend on how things go down. One hopes HP will want their customers taken care of. Before I started at %WORK%, they were buying Gateway P

RE: HP going out

2011-08-19 Thread Mathew Shember
: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: HP going out On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:44 PM, C.E. Gene Connor wrote: > Will the new buyer have to stand behind what we are now getting from HP ?? I think that will depend on how things go down. One hopes HP will want their customers taken care

RE: HP going out

2011-08-19 Thread Greg Olson
[mailto:mathew.shem...@synopsys.com] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 10:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: HP going out Oh gateway *censored, censored, censored* I remember that endless loop as well. Then they company decided on HP Kayaks.Now that was an adventure in installation

Re: HP going out

2011-08-19 Thread Silvio L. Nisgoski
... - Original Message - From: "Greg Olson" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 3:54 PM Subject: RE: HP going out Kayaks! +100 I also had the pleasure of having to support SGI 320 and 540 Visual workstations. What a disaster they were. SGI built them