HP and Sun smacking at each other over a little bit of artwork…
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This time, the two computer companies are not fighting for market share, but about a wooden sculpture of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, the HP founders. As wrote ‘The Register’ in Sun buys Hewlett and Packard, HP refused to put a Hewlett and Packard sculpture in its lobby. So Sun decided to buy the sculpture for over $6,000 and to show it in a variety of places, including its own headquarters. Why am I telling you this? It’s because Sun and HP executives are now fighting on their blogs. And this is where it becomes funny. But read more…