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"Are the bean-counters and ad-men at the helm" has unfortunately become a very good heuristic for predicting a downward turn in virtually anything.

RIP HP

Nah, good riddance

HP is Keysight now. The current business with the HP name is a totally different industry from where Hewlett & Packard started (test equipment).

I'm glad they're (mostly) dead now, but their death came from "the bean-counters and ad-men at the helm"