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Hurricane Carly has hit HP hard. I still cannot figure her strategy out. Get rid of all of the high-value added product lines like electronic test equipment, ...

Yeah, not the greatest idea to let a chick from Lucent marketing run HP. I also can't figure out why they split off Agilent, I always though instruments were the soul of HP. Not that I get sentimental about this stuff, but I liked seeing the old HP logo on equipment -- kind of continuity in the industry going back to pre-war Palo Alto. What's an "Agilent," anyway? A name some ad firm just made up?

To be fair, Agilent split off from HP before Carly was brought on board. The idea was to free HP from the humdrum drag of all that test equipment so as a leaner and meaner company they could take over the commodity computer market and the nebulous "internet services" market.

Agilent was made up, for a hefty sum, by some image consulting firm. It is suppposed to imply "agility". It could also imply "agile NOT". Extra points if you figure out the anagram for Agilent.