[Info-vax] HP so far up Microsoft's a$$....

[Paul Sture]

In article <MLB4q.2595$GG2.815 at newsfe01.iad>,
 "John Smith \(who cares if I'm the one @ HP - if here's even still 
 there\)" <a at nonymous.com> wrote:

> ...no wonder their enterprise business is in the $hitter.
> 
> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/hps-touchpad-fire-sale-the-fallout/55594?tag=nl.
> e539
> 
> By time, HP fixed that issue Saturday afternoon, the company's e-commerce 
> site served up a series of errors that looked like this:
>   Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a03e9'
>   Out of memory
>   /LM/W3SVC/600510919/Root/dStore/http://global.asa, line 0

The pre-announcement of selling the PC division has got Taiwan jittery:

http://news.techeye.net/hardware/taiwanese-panic-over-hps-stupid-pc-move

IMHO HP's announcement here has to be right up there with Gordon Brown 
announcing that he would be selling more than half the UK¹s gold 
reserves at the bottom of the market.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1654931.ece

"Brown lost £2bn selling UK's gold"

-- 
Paul Sture