HP to Acquire Voodoo PC

mytrip writes to mention a News.com article outlining HP's acquisition of Voodoo PC, the high-end gaming computer maker. Following Dell's purchase of Alienware this past March, it would seem that the big computer assemblers are gearing up for a gaming skirmish. "In the weeks prior to that acquisition, Rahul Sood predicted the looming deal after having similar acquisition-related conversations with Dell Chairman Michael Dell, he later revealed on his blog. Rahul Sood will become chief technologist in HP's game division, and Ravi Sood will take on the role of chief strategist, Rahul Sood wrote on the blog. Voodoo will maintain a presence in Calgary, Alberta, where the company is currently headquartered. The deal is expected to close in November, HP said in a press release."

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Re:so...

[felis_panthera]

Here's the word from your man on the inside...

No.... at least for the time being our tech support is remaining in house... as are our production and service departments... we are now a division of HP, but we are retaining a good deal of our autonomy as we are technically classified as Research and Development...

Re:Oh well!

[felis_panthera]

don't even joke about that man.... we do not build cookie cutter consumer garbage here and we never will...

here's the meat an potatoes of it as I understand it... HP needed a gaming division and buying us was cheaper than the R&D required to build one of their own... we needed capital to get some of our new designs off the ground.... so now HP has a gaming division (we are a somewhat seperate entity unto ourselves, under the greater umbrella of HP) that's immediately productive, and now we have a much greater resource base for our designs... we haven't been taken over, we've been integrated... from our side of this merger, it is simply allowing us greater freedom to bring our (and your) PC gaming dreams to life...