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| Historical name changes: Atten -> Siglent & Agilent -> Keysight |
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| 25 CPS:
--- Quote from: tooki on July 13, 2020, 03:32:22 pm ---HP originally spun off Agilent (to house everything other than computers and printers). Then Agilent spun off Keysight to house electronics test and measurement (leaving Agilent solely for laboratory analytics stuff). And then HP recently spun off its enterprise IT division as HP Enterprise, leaving only HP PCs and printers under the original company. --- End quote --- There was one other section of business that, in my opinion, regrettably, stayed under the HP side of the split: calculators. I really think the calculator division would have done better under Agilent and then Keysight than it has under HP. |
| tooki:
How so? |
| ejeffrey:
--- Quote from: 25 CPS on July 13, 2020, 03:37:13 pm --- --- Quote from: tooki on July 13, 2020, 03:32:22 pm ---HP originally spun off Agilent (to house everything other than computers and printers). Then Agilent spun off Keysight to house electronics test and measurement (leaving Agilent solely for laboratory analytics stuff). And then HP recently spun off its enterprise IT division as HP Enterprise, leaving only HP PCs and printers under the original company. --- End quote --- There was one other section of business that, in my opinion, regrettably, stayed under the HP side of the split: calculators. I really think the calculator division would have done better under Agilent and then Keysight than it has under HP. --- End quote --- I think that is just wishful thinking. Calculators -- especially high end scientific and domain specific calculators like HP made -- just don't have the value proposition that they did in the 80s and 90s. Really the only markets left by even the mid 2000s were education and cheap/disposable 4 function calculators. TI dominated the educational market (at least in the US) well before HP spun off Agilent. These days, they only really appeal to nostalgia nerds and that isn't really a viable business model. I love the feel of real physical buttons as much as anyone, but it isn't enough to justify keeping such a bulky and limited device around. |
| TimFox:
For those of us who will give up RPN calculators when they are pried from our cold, dead fingers, there is an interesting Swiss company https://www.swissmicros.com/ that came up with some modern hardware with similar configuration to traditional -hp- handhelds and apparently runs more modern software on them. I find the keypads a bit stiff compared with my real ones, but they work well. They have several configurations that run on essentially the same hardware. |
| Circlotron:
--- Quote from: tooki on July 13, 2020, 03:32:22 pm --- leaving only HP PCs and printers under the original company. --- End quote --- And many of the buyers of those PCs and printers would have no idea of the HP brand name history and legacy. Would have been a WAY smarter move to keep the HP name with test and measurement stuff IMHO. Can you imagine for example, Rolls Royce keeping their name with ship deck machinery and renaming their cars to xcvjnskdnfas? About as dumb as it gets. |
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