Yeah "Rigol" sounds much better.
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XBOX is doing OK. And you can buy a Microsoft mouse. I think the big seller is Office.
Intel keeps trying other stuff (iapx32, bubble memory, Xscale, etc) but it never works.
High volume things tend to become cheap or free commodities. That's lethal to a business that bets on keeping up the prices for that stuff. Why buy Windows Server when Linux is better and free? What's a cell phone worth now? $20 at Safeway?
I wonder if Apple can keep charging premium prices in the long term. The audience for hipness is fickle.
But they stopped making the Microsoft Trackball Explorer, the bums!
Well, that one is taken. But, maybe Rigor might work. as in Rigor (mortis).
Jon
Yep, the name sucks. "The name Keysight conveys the ability to see what others cannot,..." I don't see it like that.
HP could resurrect the Dymec name since they bought the company in
1959, (possibly because the logo was an inverted "hp"), for the spinoff. However, no respectable name search consulting organization would ever consider using a recycled name.How about "Logir" (Rigol backwards)?
The filing attorney's name is Andrew Roppel of Holland & Hart LLP.
Keysight details:
Some of the names he probably offered to HP (listed as Electronic Test Equip): such as Altagon, Altogon, Vectelo, Sightshift, Stormkey, Boldsight, Keyhawk, Boldfire, ad nausium. I have the horrible feeling that Keysight was the lesser of the offered evils.
I still like "Logir" (Rigol backwards) best.
Hmmm... Looks like the trademark ownership hasn't been passed to HP quite yet. It's currently owned by Corundum Holdings.
Perhaps HP is waiting for public reaction before paying for the name?
Corundum is better than Keysight.
How about Horrendous Price?
More: Looks like HP went through 5,000 possibilities before settling on the least disgusting name. They might have done better putting the 5,000 names on the back of raffle tickets, and fishing the winner out of the basket. "There were a number of names we kicked around that would have been related to our early days, our history with Hewlett-Packard," Gasparian said. "The older employees really thought that was cool. The younger people, they didn't know anything about it. Like the street that Hewlett-Packard started on. They didn't know anything about the street." Welcome to the new "cool". Retch.
Office is a big seller but not as big as Win. They're really one and the same, though (desktop).
Yep, or is killed because it doesn't have "x86 margins".
Windows == desktop
After recently buying an iPod, I can't understand how people put up with the crap. I though M$ bloat was bad.
...or Chinglish for Rigol. ;-)
Hmm, after HP, how about IQ?
xbox OS is windows microsoft mouse originally was only suited to windows (only 2 buttons) office? there's lots of windows installs without it. all those X boxes and devices that run embedded WinCE
Cute, but that brings up another problem with the name. There's no memorable acronym. In general, a company (and a new technology) needs a catchy acronym in order to survive. There are exceptions, but if I can't abreviate or acronymify the name, I won't remember the company. Somehow, KST (KeySight Technologies) just doesn't seem very memorable.
but they're not and haven't been for many years. The last motorola phone I touched was a Razr in the junk drawer at work.
HP does still produce the best PC type servers, so unlike motorola they still have engineers and products, although far less than before.
Kodak hasn't claimed that for many years. they were big into industrial printing stuff, and I believe those units are still doing OK. I'm not clear on what the huge money drain over at kodak even was in these recent years. It is fascinating they never fired the clown CEO that helped them crash and burn though.
still relevant, making stuff and in the same field. TI has still survived without a stupid rebranding. All the other large chip makers have been unable to pull this off for some reason.
they released windows 8, so they deserve to fail now.
Consider KST is a radio brand out of China. I have one of their V6 radios.
The jury is out - as the servers HP produces are for the most part Compaqs.
Now Dell - if they could fix the problems with the PERC cards might be a strong contender.
True. HP dropped their server lines and mostly rebadged the Compaq proliants while still updating them. They're by far the nicest machines out there.
They're still at least a decade behind HP when it comes to building an easy to manage and maintain server.
Every Dell PERC card has been a load of garbage, plus none are compatible with even themselves.
Are their DRAC boards at least usable yet? Are the still disabled by default until you type in codes?
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l to a business that bets on keeping up the prices for that stuff. Why buy Windows Server when Linux is better and free? What's a cell phone worth now ? $20 at Safeway?
Charging half as much again for something with a good reputation is a long- established business model. IBM and HP did it for a number of decades.
Google seems to be intent on exploiting the same human weakness, but in a s lightly less obvious fashion. If Apple can keep the quality as good as the best of the competition, they can presumably keep on charging a premium ind efinitely Tom Peters wrote several books about the phenomena - which he par tly ascribed to having the engineers in close contact with the customers - but he was always heavier on the presentation skills than on the serious co ntent.
I'm amused to find that he's just a couple of weeks older than I am.
Aptly named ;-)
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