HP/Compaq takeover

Murpheeee

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What was the deal here......are HP keeping the Compaq brand going or are they gradually phasing it out?
 

numark

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Compaq has too much name recognition with consumers...look at how many people still have Compaq desktops that were made back in the mid-1990s. To the average consumer, HP is known solely for their printers (and perhaps their calculators, if you're an accountant). It would be incredibly idiotic for them to take such a good brand name and phase it out.
 

shiner

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Well I was just in a meeting about 2 weeks ago with some Compaq Reps. I'm a Network Admin at a place where we have 116 Compaq servers and about 2500 Compaq workstations deployed so they take good care of us and keep us informed. The Compaq name will continue on the workstation line but HP will have a few workstations of their own, not many but a few. The servers have already started being badged as HP Proliants and that's the way it will continue to be.
 

spanky

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well... if it means anything... they discontinued the ipaq line of networking goodies (thus the clearance at radio shack).
 

vegetation

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Remember, when you're at the corporate level, logic is something you are not required to be capable of.

It would be incredibly idiotic for them to take such a good brand name and phase it out.

 

Linflas

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Originally posted by: shinerburke
Well I was just in a meeting about 2 weeks ago with some Compaq Reps. I'm a Network Admin at a place where we have 116 Compaq servers and about 2500 Compaq workstations deployed so they take good care of us and keep us informed. The Compaq name will continue on the workstation line but HP will have a few workstations of their own, not many but a few. The servers have already started being badged as HP Proliants and that's the way it will continue to be.

I was on their site last week looking for some drivers for a Proliant 370 and from what I could see all the servers had been rebadged to HP. I guess Compaq is getting a taste of what they did to Digital after they bought them.