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

[Alexander Schreiber]

Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> 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.

Having run HP-UX on PA-RISC (and later Itanics) for a living for while
back then, I quite liked both the PA-RISC hardware and HP-UX as a platform
for HA services (using MC/SG from the MCOE).

Kind regards,
            Alex.
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