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HP really know how to make a bad impression with their current and potential customers - the company seems to have a tendency to offer appallingly low-quality lectures on IT strategy. Memo to HP Executives: if you give customers such low-quality advice, they will assume your employees are idiots, and stop listening. [...]
Three days ago, HP put out a press release. I think it’s trying to persuade me that running Sun’s Solaris x86 operating system on HP’s rather nice x86/x64-based hardware is a good idea; but really it’s pretty damned difficult to tell. For example, take this sentence:
HP’s robust UNIX operating system, [...]
A few people have e-mailed me to ask if I’m pro Sun Microsystems, or anti Sun Microsystems. I can understand the confusion (some of my posts about Sun are postive about the company and its offerings, and some are more critical).
But if you think about it, my position is pretty easy to understand: [...]