[link|http://dangillmor.typepad.com/dan_gillmor_on_grassroots/|Dan Gillmor]:

An industry wag suggested a scenario to me after HP bought Compaq:

1) HP sells the printer business to Agilent, itself a spinoff of the old HP.
2) HP, hanging onto the computer business, renames itself Compaq.
3) Agilent, which has now reassembled the businesses that comprised the heart -- and soul -- of the old HP, renames itself Hewlett-Packard.

Makes sense to me, anyway.


It does have a certain logic to it. But I wonder what Agilent would think of the idea.

Cheers,
Scott.