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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RE: late commer to the market
by elsewhere on Thu 20th Nov 2008 19:42
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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... 
RE: late commer to the market
by javiercero1 on Sat 22nd Nov 2008 20:02
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one important reason HP is surviving today.. is they were the last ones into the PC market. They didnt make HP pc in the 80s and early 90s. It wasnt until the late 90s they started to enter the market.