[geeks] Amusing HP interview

[Bjorn Ramqvist]

Kurt Huhn wrote:
> 
> > Am I the only person who thinks that insulting your customers is not
> > the way to promote your product strategy?
> 
> Look where it's gotten Microsoft...
> 
> If you ask me, I don't think it has anythign to do with flat earth
> thinking or not.  The point is, the Itanium was DOA.  The Itanium2 is
> shaping up to live a similar life (or lack thereof).  The software
> doesn't exist, the widespread adoption doesn't exist, the chip is a
> niche market chip and HP has no idea how to market it.  It's as if you
> had SGI complaining about how all these PC users weren't buying Fuels.

Well, in our case, it was performance. We wanted performance, regardless
of price (withing limits).
$IDIOT_COMPANY makes the software go almost twice as fast on Wintel than
on the fuel, and therefore... Well, you know the rest.

THAT'S sad.

/Bjorn