HP's The Machine kicks Microsoft to the curb in favor of Linux - TechRepublic

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 05:10:04AM -0400, William Muriithi wrote:
> In my opinion, seemed like they were only interested in forcing a more
> expensive CPU to the market. Though it was an interesting technology, it
> never did better in performance against x86/x86-64.  Was petty ambitious
> that they expected it to sell even after pricing it horribly against x86.

Well developing the PARISC line themselves was also expensive (and the
HPUX workstations back in the 90s cost a fortune to buy).

> That's all thanks to Carly Fiorina. It was her who put HP properly in PC
> market. I suspect if they didn't have her leadership, they would be far
> less exposed to the dying PC market. Now, its too late to get away from PC
> industry and will have to shrink with it. Its amazing the damage one bad
> leader can do to a company. '

Did she do anything good for HP?

> +1, its wasteful energy wise to run a full PC just for firewall. A cheap
> Asus router would do the same job better after installing tomato firmware.

Certainly more power efficient.

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