[Info-vax] Did HP get rid of VMS to make itself a more attractive takeover target for Xerox?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/8/2019 3:06 PM, David Turner wrote:
> On 11/6/2019 8:03 AM, seasoned_geek wrote:
>> https://www.thestreet.com/markets/xerox-reportedly-mulls-takeover-of-hp-inc-15155605 
>
> HP was always a printer company that got a hankering for real computing.
> This company is beyond a joke. I would be selling IBM if it wasn't for 
> our lack of vendors

I thought HP did some OK stuff back in the old days (>25 years ago).

Instruments, hand calculators, 3000 series and MPE,
early Laserjet printers, early PC's etc..

Some may even have liked PA and HP-UX.

But around mid 1990's they started making all the wrong decisions.

Arne