HP breaks apart...

In the NEWS today, HP is splitting into a unit for "Enterprise Business" and another for "PC / Printer". The Enterprise unit appears to mean "Cloud" - seems it will include server hardware manufacturing and the Networking hardware with which HP competes with Cisco.

This would effect DEC equipment owners because HP acquired COMPAQ, who had previously acquired DEC. Is there any word on which unit would retain ownership of the DEC heritage elements, like VMS licensing?

Perhaps this would be a place to discuss potential impacts of this re-organization as we discover them.

In the news articles the split was pretty clear - personal computers and printers (the consumer business) will become HP Inc. The rest of HP (the enterprise hardware and services) will be Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. I would think that anything left of DEC would wind up in Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.

Is there anything really left of DEC inside of HP? Some guy with a red stapler in the basement maybe?

The last remnants of DEC are to be licensed to a new company called VSI. They will continue to build and support OpenVMS with an expected port to x86.
Here's the "supposed" roadmap:
http://www.vmssoftware.com/news/announcement/RM/VMS_Software_Roadmap.pdf

Other than that, I expect even the guy with the red stapler may be gone (guess he decided not to set the place on fire this time...)

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I saw an "extremely rare" Red Swingline go for ten million dollars* on Ebay . . . so I guess the guy is gone.

* IIRC most of that was shipping charges.

Must be a HP disease. Agilent just this year spun off the measurement part of the business as Keysight.

Well if you keep eating up other companies sooner or later you will have to poop one out.