[Info-vax] Rumor of EMC shopping itself to hp

Stephen Hoffman seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
Wed Sep 24 10:23:57 EDT 2014


On 2014-09-24 13:10:58 +0000, Scott Dorsey said:

> Stephen Hoffman  <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>> Folks that manufacture bricks have different skills, tools, 
>> specializations and cost-models than do the folks that use those bricks 
>>  to build structures.
> DEC had both of them.  But Seagate got the brick people and I don't know
> WHAT happened to StorageWorks.

DEC got out of the disk brick and the tape brick business manufacturing 
when that became a commodity.

HP has a storage business, and does still has the StorageWorks brand, 
though the StorageWorks nomenclature has seemingly been largely 
replaced by newer HP marketing.


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