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HP has been a shitty company for decades. Why do people still buy things from them? They are dead to me.
I'm in IT. I get cold called by VAR trying to sell me HPE here and there. I tell them straight up I won't buy HP cause of their business practices.
I don't deal with hardware much anymore, but I'd take Aruba over Cisco any day. But for everything else, yeah fuck HP.
I worked briefly for Cisco because they acquired my company (a much smaller competitor) to help eliminate competition. The only good thing I can say about them is they gave me (and everybody else from this smaller company) two months' notice of the layoff and didn't have us escorted out of the building or anything.
It'd be cooler if they did escort you out of the building but also paid 2 months tbh
Well, I was WFH at the time and they didn't give me anything to do so it was effectively that anyway. And really they had given me almost no work to do for the four months prior to that - which of course is why I was not even the least bit surprised by the layoff. My severance was to the penny exactly what I would have gotten from unemployment, so it effectively meant I got unemployment benefits without having to pretend to look for work. Also, they randomly sent me a check for $6K that I have no idea what for (not PTO or sick time compensation) and I used it to buy a school bus. So overall I can't really hate them too much. Years later I found out my mother had thought I was working for Sysco (the food supply conglomerate) instead of Cisco.
What did you do with the school bus?
Installed a Sysco router (sushi belt)
It's my understanding their enterprise products are still good. It's the consumer products which suck
I’m a HP reseller, but barely ( I might sell a half dozen servers a year as part of larger projects) it’s SO MUCH EASIER to deal with Dell tho. Quality has been good but not great for both for a long time.
Oh I was talking about laptops and printers and stuff. Don't know much about servers
It's a company who makes them and their partners lots of money, any company you see pushing HP products is just as shady as them. They've been riding their brand recognition for at least a decade.
Then right before their EOL's they push all their old stock for pennies and suddenly everyone has a HP product and they don't complain for the most part cause they got them dirt cheap.
For me it was because I was a broke (ignorant) college student who bought the cheapest printer I could out of necessity
There is literally no good corporate computer manufacturer anymore. Dell, HP, Lenovo, all not good.
There are decent companies for home laptops: system76, framework, etc...
But they don't have the support infrastructure necessary for many corporate IT departments.
And even in that list HP is dead last.