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The following stroke me as a very strange: "Hurd borrowed heavily from the founders’ playbook". Really? How? Where? Why? WTF? Does any of HP-alumnis here thinks that Hurd was a "HP way" CEO?
But the answer is no.
As a former employee of Agilent, I have to say that the saddest thing about the HP story is that another company got away with the name . To the extent that the real Hewlett-Packard still exists, Agilent is the real Hewlett-Packard. (The company spun itself into two parts in the 1990s.) And so it's painful to read all these stories about how the HP Way is dead dead dead, about how the company founded by Bill and Dave…
> I suspect that, in true HP tradition, its products continue to be fairly expensive, culturally distinct, equipped with voluminous and sometimes mysterious documentation, occasionally quirky to the point of hysterical laughter, and utterly indispensable in their particular niches There was an HP minicomputer in one of the EE labs at Caltech circa 1980. It had the software that ran the EEPROM programmer, and if I rec…