HP to Heavily Support and Invest in .Net

Dr.Stress writes: "CNet is reporting 'Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft plan to invest $50 million in a joint effort to sell corporate customers on the software giant's .Net Web services efforts....HP plans to devote 3,000 consultants from its HP Services unit to the effort and also train 5,000 people in its sales and support staff.' Microsoft will provide additional installation support, and the companies will jointly market .Net services. This was announced previously, but this article contains a few more details. Frankly, as an HP employee, I am alarmed at all this closeness with Microsoft lately (this, plus the media center PCs....what's next??)."

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[Anonymous Coward]

ZDNet article [com.com]

The true reason

[abhikhurana]

Okay, now that I did the unbelievable by posting the second message which not only was not a troll, but also pinpointed the cause of this change in HP policy, there is a related story on ZDNET on this

Okay, now that I did the unbelievable by posting the second message which not only was not a troll, but also pinpointed the cause of this change in HP policy, there is a related story [com.com] on ZDNET. To quote from the article:

"Our relationship has significantly improved," Microsoft group vice president Jim Allchin told CNET News.com earlier this month.

Asked if the Compaq influence was the leading factor, Allchin said, "I suspect that's a large part of it."

So now you know why this happened.

Re:HP's always been in bed w/MS

[jarodss]

Actually I also work for HP, but I am one of the converted, a red team worker. The word here is to pick up on linux, our servers and desktops will be offered in win2k, xp pro and linux options very shortly, so the techs here supporting them need to have linux knowledge.

So don't count on HP getting in bed with MS all the way, it seems like their just fuck-friends, at least for the moment.

Re:Carly Fiorina, I presume?

[Ours]

They didn't "shut down" the lab instruments part. They made a spinoff called Agilent Technologies and that company seems to be doing just fine.

Re:What do you mean, "lately"?!

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, I remember around 1994, HP decided to start pushing NT and switch over to Intel architecture from PA-RISC, by 1998. That's what the road map said anyway. That was the beginning of decline. So the powers that remembered were pushing Linux , when Compaq came in. Then there was the Apollo acquisition(1990?). Which when first executed, catapulted HP from 13% to 29% workstation market share against Sun's 27%. Two years later they were down to 14%.

HP has been very good at this one downmanship. Good to see they have not lost their touch.

SourceSafe just hasn't screwed you (YET)

[Codex The Sloth]

The problem with SSafe is that once your project gets too big (5 GB is the number microsoft themselves suggests as a maximum limit) the database (which is just a bunch of files on an NT server) get corrupted and your screwed. Unlike CVS, hand rejiggering of the database is not possible...

The other problem with it is the "server" just uses NT file sharing and the shares have to give everyone write permission so there's no real security anyway...