Originally posted by danmcgrew
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Why did Compaq and HP spend $Billions to kill their profitable and high performing Alpha and PA-RISC products in favor of Itanium? Tru64, OpenVMS, and HP-UX are basically irrelevant at this point, as everyone jumped ship when the Itanic sunk. I worked for both Compaq and HP in the late 90's and they had a solid lock on the markets that bought Tru64, OpenVMS, and HP-UX systems. Competition was scarce, the relevant industries had made a defacto standard of them, and sales were brisk. Profit margins were very nice too, way higher than the commodity wintel tinkertoys of the day. But along comes new CEO's eager to "make their mark" with "bold new strategies". The rest is history.
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