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The New Agilent

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amdx

Jan 1, 1970
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Because every time one turns around, you have something foul to say
about some firm or group.

Lansing // East Lansing
 
Dreadful name; sounds Taiwanese. Nobody is going to want to buy a Keysight

signal generator.



Interesting that HP spun off the profitable stuff, and Agilent ditto.

A side-effect of the era of enlightenment when complete trash like Fiorina were appointed CEO, and you should see all the other corporate boards that see yew enn tee has sat on since- utterly useless trash who couldn't competently run a fast food restaurant!
 
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Phil Hobbs

Jan 1, 1970
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Dreadful name; sounds Taiwanese. Nobody is going to want to buy a Keysight
signal generator.

Interesting that HP spun off the profitable stuff, and Agilent ditto.

Keysight? Seriously? Bombsight is more like it.

I wonder how much they paid somebody to come up with that. Of course
everybody in the business was calling Agilent "Flatulent" for the first
few months.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics

160 North State Road #203
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510

hobbs at electrooptical dot net
http://electrooptical.net
 
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miso

Jan 1, 1970
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John said:

NCIS I'm guessing, but it doesn't make much sense.

Here's the deal. If the product is good, you don't change the name. They
should have left the name HP for the test and instrumentation products and
called the computer/printer line something else. However, in the eye of the
public, they never saw a HP test instrument, so the company didn't want to
lose THAT branding.

OK, so they formed Agilent. The people that needed test equipment grumbled
and got over it. Hell, they still call it HP even with Agilent on the
faceplate.

So what becomes of Agilent now that they are rebranding the test and
instrumentation line again?

I think the worst branding was Avago. Sounds like fuckin' avocado, and I
hate avocados.

People earn big bucks thinking up these names. You would think they could do
a better job. I could at least stand Agilent. You think of something agile.
Not a negative thing. Anything with "key" in it is bad. Keys have a negative
connotation:
1) Where are my keys
2) I lost the key
3) I locked myself out
4) I can't believe how long this freakin' product key is to unlock this
software
Yada yada yada.
 
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Fred Abse

Jan 1, 1970
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Of course
everybody in the business was calling Agilent "Flatulent" for the first
few months.

I never thought of calling them that, having spotted the anagram ;-)
 
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Cydrome Leader

Jan 1, 1970
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John Larkin said:
Dreadful name; sounds Taiwanese. Nobody is going to want to buy a Keysight
signal generator.

it really does.
Interesting that HP spun off the profitable stuff, and Agilent ditto.

It's a move straight from the failed company playbook.

Every division Motorola spun off years ago is doing great. I'm not sure if
the the legal name Motorola even makes or does anything at all anymore.

Same story for Kodak.

Nobody learns anything.
 
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Spehro Pefhany

Jan 1, 1970
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Sexy test gear!

Judging by their repair & recalibration pricing, it's somewhat
appropriate.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
 
Dreadful name; sounds Taiwanese. Nobody is going to want to buy a Keysight
signal generator.

Interesting that HP spun off the profitable stuff, and Agilent ditto.

People will buy the good stuff, no matter what name is on it. The
junk needs the marketing cache of the name brand.
 
Moto: "We're in the cell phone business."

HP: "We're in the PC business."

Kodak: "We're in the film business."

Intel?

"We're in the x86 business. Whatever your question, x86 is the answer
(at x86 margins)."
Microsoft?

"We're in the Windows business. Whatever your question, Windows is the
answer (with M$ quality)."

Does either have another business? Really?
 
XBOX is doing OK. And you can buy a Microsoft mouse. I think the big
seller is Office.

Office is a big seller but not as big as Win. They're really one and
the same, though (desktop).
Intel keeps trying other stuff (iapx32, bubble memory, Xscale, etc)
but it never works.

Yep, or is killed because it doesn't have "x86 margins".
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?

Windows == desktop
I wonder if Apple can keep charging premium prices in the long term.
The audience for hipness is fickle.

After recently buying an iPod, I can't understand how people put up
with the crap. I though M$ bloat was bad.
 
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Jasen Betts

Jan 1, 1970
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XBOX is doing OK. And you can buy a Microsoft mouse. I think the big
seller is Office.

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
 
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