Linked by David Adams on Thu 20th Nov 2008 04:23 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
Tech pioneer Hewlett Packard has had its ups and downs over the decades, but it's currently on the upswing, even during these trying economic times. #5 probably hits closest for OSNews readers: a renewed focus on innovation.
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HP was making personal computers in the 80s, they were CP/M and MS-DOS based. I was even selling Vectra PCs in the mid-nineties, and we also had Pavillion PCs around that time, though I wasn't involved in the consumer/retail space.
However, they were an also-ran in terms of market share. It was the acquisition of Compaq that put them on the map, but they had their share of internal grief making that merger work, particularly since Compaq was still having issues with the Digital acquisition. I knew a lot of miserable people working there around that time...