Inside Xerox bid for Hewlett Packard: What would a merger mean?

WRAL Tech Wire ^ | 17 Jan 2020 | Ezra Gottheil

[KevinB]

What she did to that company was insanity... and the fact the board let it continue to happen long long after it was obvious she was incapable of doing the job rather than admit their Tokenism had failed is indefensible.

Get woke, go broke!

[HamiltonJay]

Never worked for or with Xerox, but This is the company that invented object oriented programming and the graphical user interface the Ethernet .. among countless other things, and never capitalized appropriately on much of it...

Xerox litterally invented computer networking as it is known today...

Yet you never hear them mentioned when it is discussed...

[Red Badger]

They copied it......................

[null and void]

That’s because those technologies didn’t use xerography.

They also made the world’s first microprocessor with on chip ROM and RAM.

Since they just lost their hat and butt in a failed attempt at personal computers, they didn’t call it a microprocessor, it was called the LCC, Low Cost Controller. Controller for what? Xerox copiers.

Nothing else. They could have taken over the industrial controls market!

Nope. Only dry powder fused to paper.

[Cronos]

DXC has WFR’ed a lot of senior people all over North America and Europe, even in Poland. I also know folks in DXC India and the axe has landed there as well.

I guess you are looking out for other jobs as well. We don’t know when that company will fold

[Cronos]

Xerox has a lot of products and is doing quite well. Besides the hardware it has a lot of services directed at business

[G Larry]

They’re just copy cats....

[G Larry]

They’re just copy cats....

[chaosagent]

Two mismanaged companies...to be merged into one very mismanaged business...

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Kind of like Sears and K-Mart.

[Nuke From Orbit]

“HP never recovered form Carly...
What she did to that company was insanity... and the fact the board let it continue to happen long long after it was obvious she was incapable of doing the job rather than admit their Tokenism had failed is indefensible.”

Absolutely correct!!! I survived that woman but got caught up in the Mark Hurd mess following her. The server side of the business never recovered. One train wreck after another.

[zeugma]

This would have been an interesting merger back before Fiona emasculated HP. HP was once a great company with a broad line of really interesting test and measurement hardware, as well as their computer systems. I used to be SysAdmin on HP-3000 systems running MPE-V. Their test and measurement catalog was freaking awesome. A hardback book, where you could actually order an atomic clock, among other things. Wish I still had a copy of it.

[Deplorable American1776]

I used to have stock in both companies. My cousin used to work at HP. Xerox is not the Xerox of the 1970s...The only people who’ll be happy is hedge funds...and the managers who are the Hunter Biden of computers and printing...(they don’t know about the companies, if I managed my companies like they do...I’d be in jail...

[Deplorable American1776]

True...Xerox is the Sears, HP is the K-Mart...so you’ll see it die....short the stock...

[semimojo]

As for Xerox, isn’t it pretty much ACS and some printers now?

ACS is gone. Xerox sold the IT business to Atos and spun the BPO business out as Conduent.

Darwin Deason still has a big chunk of Xerox preferred, though.

[PAR35]

Thanks for the update. Speaking of ACS, did you see the stories about the leaning tower of Dallas a few weeks ago?

[semimojo]

Speaking of ACS, did you see the stories about the leaning tower of Dallas a few weeks ago?

Yeah, good old Building One.

I thought about organizing a sunrise watching party for the original implosion.