Hi All,
It took me a while yesterday for HP's decisions to sink in. By the time I went to sleep I was very worried about the fate of HP calculators (present and future) and the fine men and women who work in producing them. Yesterday, I had written a thread to invite many folks on this forum to the HHC2011 saying that it will be a historical event. I HAD meant historical from the technical aspect of the cool topics discussed. It may be even more historical from the aspect of the fate of the calculator division. As I understood the reports from yesterday, it seems that HP's top leaders don't want to waste their time with making chump change. They want to go after the big bucks (IBM style) and the big customers--government and big corporations. You and I do not belong to that exclusive club. Moreover, our most beloved calculators do not belong to the "high dollar" item (actually service) category. I can easily see some company (most likely Chinese) buying the HP computer business, but who will buy the very small HP calculator business??? I shutter at the idea that our beloved HP calculators are heading for oblivion because they do not rack up the big bucks.
I am truly sad and shaken about what I perceive will happen in the next few months and the next year.
:-(
Namir