[geeks] Amusing HP interview

[Kurt Huhn]

Gavin Hubbard <ghub005 at xtra.co.nz> 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.

It all comes down to failure to market to the target audience.

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Kurt                 "Who am I kidding?  Cake is just a delivery
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