And they'd have (embarassing) answers similar to those coming from IBM when
asked why they don't control the IBM PC market!  Not very tasty though just
desserts, that could be why they won't let go of CSY.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stigers, Greg [And] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 12:19 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Why spin off CSY?
>
>
> X-no-Archive:yes
> So we HP-loyalists could have our Coke and OJ too?
>
> The Saturnization of MPE... There's an interesting idea.
>
> I cannot but think that were something like this to occur, as the 3000
> started to succeed, Carly and company would find themselves
> being asked
> about the 3000.
>
> Greg Stigers
> http://www.cgiusa.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 2:56 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Why spin off CSY?
>
> <snip>
> The HP3000 will not get the play in either the trade magazines or in
> advertisements that the people on this list want until it
> becomes either a
> highly autonomous division within HP (in the manner that
> Minute Maid is
> within Coca-Cola or Buick is within General Motors) or a wholly-owned,
> independent subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard (such as Saturn is
> to GM). Indeed,
> if it does not become this independent entity, I would not
> expect to ever
> hear Fiorina promote the HP3000 outside of the context of an
> HPWorld-like
> meeting. Only after it succeeds on its own would it ever have
> a chance of
> becoming a "strategic operating system" to HP.
>
> Wirt Atmar
> <snip>
>