| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 3986.1 | HP too | AIMTEC::BURDEN_D | A bear in his natural habitat | Thu Jul 13 1995 13:24 | 10 |
| HP has 3 different listings:
Hewlett Packard
Hewlett-Packard
HP
In fact, a few other companies have multiple entries, including IBM, TI and what
appears to be different divisions of Microsoft itself.
Dave
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| 3986.2 | | LJSRV2::KALIKOW | Buddy, can youse paradigm? | Thu Jul 13 1995 13:53 | 17 |
| GASP!! !!SHOCK HORROR!!
You mean that the Corporate Entities denoted by
"HP"
and
"Hewlett Packard"
ARE ONE AND THE SAME??
OmiGOSH, they certainly need aNOTHER Corporate Identity Program...
(Thanks to their $5M ad campaign & re-signage in 1990-1992, I
already knew that
"Hewlett Packard"
is the same Corporate Entity as
"Hewlett-Packard".
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| 3986.3 | | REGENT::LASKO | C&P Printer Systems Engineering | Thu Jul 13 1995 14:13 | 5 |
| > Digital many printers
Well, we're all consistent. The rest of you folks should fix things up.
:-) :-) :-) :-)
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| 3986.4 | Digital still uses different company names | PCBUOA::PDICKERSON | Philip, an Aussie in PC-land | Thu Jul 13 1995 15:13 | 24 |
| I asked, and obtained the attached responses from two different people
involved with the Windows 95 product within Digital. It seems like the
problem is mostly caused by Digital.
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We've asked Microsoft about this many times, and the basic problem is that
we as a corporation still are confused as to what we are - these fields are
created by different organizations within both Digital and Microsoft, and we're
DEC, Digital, Digital Equipment, etc. as far as the Digital and Microsoft
engineers are concerned.
Bottom line is that we've asked Microsoft to fix it, but it's a VERY low
priority for them - basically a suggestion.
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The reason that different names and entries exist is because different groups
within Digital (e.g., printer, network) submit entries to Microsoft. We don't
have control over how Microsoft handles these submissions.
The problem has been formally winbugged. The response was that Microsoft was
not going to change such a minor/cosmetic problem here at crunch time.
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| 3986.5 | | CBHVAX::CBH | Lager Lout | Thu Jul 13 1995 15:27 | 17 |
| So who are we? So far I've seen:
DEC
Digital
Digital Equipment
Digital ltd
Digital Equipment ltd
Digital Equipment Co
Digital Equipment Co ltd
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation ltd
Digital Equipment Company
Digital Equipment Company ltd
and that's not to mention the many varieties of capitals!
Chris.
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| 3986.6 | | MU::porter | | Thu Jul 13 1995 17:13 | 18 |
| re .-1
If I've got it right, you're talking about two distinct
companies there.
Digital Equipment Corporation.
and
Digital Equipment Company, Ltd.
The former is a USA corporation, the latter is
a company registered in the UK (and owned by the
former, I expect).
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| 3986.7 | Time to move HQ from Maynard..... | TROOA::MSCHNEIDER | Digital has it NOW ... Again! | Fri Jul 14 1995 02:17 | 4 |
| Or as a customer drifting through our booth at the Canadian COMDEX said
to me yesterday:
"Digital? Are you a Japanese company?
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| 3986.8 | | VANGA::KERRELL | DECUS Dublin 11-15 September'95 | Fri Jul 14 1995 07:35 | 6 |
| re.5/6:
The UK subsidiary is "Digital Equipment Co. Limited" and not any of the
variations mentioned in either .5 or .6
Dave.
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| 3986.9 | new Coke | KAOFS::B_VANVALKENB | | Fri Jul 14 1995 12:33 | 13 |
| isn't it a good thing to have your name in any form gain more
shelf space ???
Brian V
Field Service
Customer Service
Multivendor Customer Service
Multi vendor Customer Service
Multi Vendor Customer Service
MCS
MVCS
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