From Compaq to HP - Infestation Indeed!

This is an image shot with my first digital camera - an Olympus E-10. I still have the camera, but this shot of the Compaq Computer headquarters north of Houston, Texas is no more. As most know, it's been replaced by the Hewlett Packard brand name after a unique merger earlier this century. This image has nothing technical to show - except that things change. After the newly created HP corporation merged (bought out due to cranial cave-in - and pure, distilled greed of the CEOs at that time) a lot of good talent and people went away. Just poof - gone.

It's indeed a shame that one of the top headlines on cnn.com today was that their new portable printer really wasn't worth a damn.

"Hewlett-Packard recently released its Officejet H470 Mobile Series, an update to its line of portable inkjet printers. The models range from $224 to $314, which isn't cheap, considering the majority of home inkjets cost less than $100.

The print quality is also unsatisfactory, which wasn't a surprise but disappointing nonetheless."

It's great to see that HP's slogan is indeed changing from INVENT - to INFECT. They managed to infest a great company and remove the great people who loved it and built it, so any failures coming their way might be quite fair. Following the 'herd' might not be the best of strategies anymore.