This from Infoworld's weekly "Cringely" column (yeah, it's not really Cringely, but what the heck, Norm is going to love this one anyway):
"Hewlett-Packard is giving a leave of absence -- so to speak --
to storage, despite higher hopes it may have once held. HP
called a mole at 8 o'clock one evening last week and fired
him on the phone. Pretty nice, eh? My good man was a storage
specialist, and his Midwest regional manager told him that HP
wasn't going to spend any more money trying to sell storage.
"If customers want to buy it, they can have it," the manager
commented. In character, HP's financial folks did some fancy
math to calculate that two weeks of severance pay per year
for six years of service amounted to nine weeks for the
forlorn and forgotten. And I thought the HP Way meant
treating people with dignity?"
Looks like the New HP calculates severance pay on a 12C Platinum. . . .
Best,
--- Les [http://www.lesbell.com.au]