anymore, lol.

    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      First, there was Hewlett-Packard, a company that existed from 1939 to 2015. After that, it was split into HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

      HP inc. sells computers and stuff like that, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise sells servers, storage, networking and AI stuff.

      • chaotic_disorganizer@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, but stuff like this is pretty normal, isn’t it? companies change form all the time, doesn’t mean they have to change what they do. Hewlett-Packard started out by making scientific equipment, so you might say they had already changes into something unrecognisable when they sold their science equipment branch.

        • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Totally agree. Companies that manage to survive more than a few decades need to adapt. Usually, this means trying a variety of things to see what works.

          Eventually, the company may choose to split a certain department into a separate company. When that happens, it usually gets a very distinct name. HP just decided to go with a very confusing way to name those two companies that are supposed to be completely separate.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    24·
    2 months ago

    HP used to be called something else. Started with an A. They made the spinoff company for reasons I can’t recall. It didn’t work out too well. So IIRC they renamed it to HP, while Hewlett-Packard went on to do corporate/government stuff.

    HP is the one that makes all the laptops, PCs, and printers you know and love to hate. Though, I heard their laptops were good. Still went with Asus for my previous laptop and last Windows laptop. Happy MacBook Air user now, as I always should have been. Windows laptops never made any sense to me, but they were familiar so I bought a few of them over the years until I learned better. (Should have at least put Linux on them. Oh well, you live and learn.) But the Asus outspec’d the HP in many ways, it was just uglier (plum shell with gold hinges, ugh… vs silver and chrome… now I got a “Midnight” (dark blue in some light, black in others) MBA).