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HP Kills Off Utility Data Center

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the whitepapers-to-obits dept.

pacopico writes "HP's much hyped and highly-regarded UDC system has gone the way of the dodo. The Register charts the technology's demise and points to the few other reporters who covered UDC's end. Spent some time at HP checking out UDC and am sad to see it go. Ahead of its time to be sure."

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  1. Re:HP woes... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    HP is going down the tubes due to a combination of Carly and the Compaq merger. The Compaq managment mentality has certainly taken over.

    If however you still want to work for a company where the HP idea and the HP way live on... head over to Agilent Technologies. They aren't perfect, but it's probably a good thing for everyone there that they were spun off. It's also clear to anyone that has to work with HPaq or Agilent on a daily basis that Agilent is the only one of the two retaining any of the things that made HP a decent company.

  2. To bad they don't just rerelease it as OSS. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's to bad to see technology like this die.

    I know it's not going to happen, but it would be nice if HP would just release it as open source software instead of just letting it die off.

    That way they could stick a couple designers on it, who would otherwise probably be fired, and see if anybody would like to pick it up. (hint hint Redhat)

    The reason stuff like this tends to go, IMO, is that even though it's good software, nobody is in the position to pay for something that they don't need. However by letting people play around with it and modify it to suite their specific purposes there is a chance that new life could be breathed into it and then HP would be in a possition to benifit from it, since they are the people with the most expertise with the software.

    Of course that sort of thing is very unlikely, but I am just sayin'. You know?

    1. Re:To bad they don't just rerelease it as OSS. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting
      I know it's not going to happen, but it would be nice if HP would just release it as open source software instead of just letting it die off.

      You forget that HP is so opposed to open source that it appears to have walked away from it's $470 million (what they paid) open-source-based software group out of fear of offending their proprietary software vendors. I think they'd sooner sign over the patents to MSFT than release it as open source.

  3. Nice company motto by r_j_prahad · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So this is what HP means by "Invent"? In just a few short years, I have waved sayonara to their medical instruments division, their measurements division, OpenMail, MPE/iX and the HP3000 line, and now UDC. Not to mention tens of thousands of people, many of whom I used to work with.

    I'm too depressed to continue. I only wish our country had the balls to fight treason like this.

  4. There are people behind the technology by descubes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Several comments lamented the loss of a great technology. I couldn't care less. There are men and women behind this technology, several of them close friends of mine, and that's the real problem here. For them, obviously, but also for HP. HP loses a really large pool of talented engineers. That's another great blow to the morale of the engineering community at HP. If something like UDC can go belly up in a matter of weeks, who's next?

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