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#2616303 4-Dec-2020 12:42

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Never in all of recorded history have The New Management decided that "You know what? It's working great as it is" and decided not to change anything. I don't know maybe we'll get lucky and Kogan will change to match MightyApe rather than the other way around.

HP buying Compaq was a good example of that. They changed most things, but HP became Compaq not the other way around. Of course there will be changes. I tend to be pessimistic about these sort of things, but Kogan has been largely financially successful, and so I suspect it's somewhat unlikely major breaking changes will happen in the short to medium term.

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#2616308 4-Dec-2020 12:56

networkn:

SaltyNZ:

Never in all of recorded history have The New Management decided that "You know what? It's working great as it is" and decided not to change anything. I don't know maybe we'll get lucky and Kogan will change to match MightyApe rather than the other way around.

HP buying Compaq was a good example of that. They changed most things, but HP became Compaq not the other way around. Of course there will be changes. I tend to be pessimistic about these sort of things, but Kogan has been largely financially successful, and so I suspect it's somewhat unlikely major breaking changes will happen in the short to medium term.

Financially successful is only one measure of success...and the one their share holders will care about......but that's not necessarily hand in hand with customer service which is something at this point Mighty Ape is very good at.

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#2616309 4-Dec-2020 12:57

@networkn my wife was an Account Manager at HP when the HP/Compaq merger went through. She said that in NZ it was definitely a Compaq take over especially in the attitudes of Compaq staff. It was not so much overseas. In NZ a lot of the HP staff left and stated new ventures like Exeed. A lot of the management positions went to Compaq staff . My wife stayed for about a year and left to go to IBM.

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#2616323 4-Dec-2020 13:27

Have sent them a message to ask whether voucher credit will continue to be honoured but I guess they'll just reply saying things continue as normal until any announcements are made.

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#2616327 4-Dec-2020 13:39

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@networkn my wife was an Account Manager at HP when the HP/Compaq merger went through. She said that in NZ it was definitely a Compaq take over especially in the attitudes of Compaq staff. It was not so much overseas. In NZ a lot of the HP staff left and stated new ventures like Exeed. A lot of the management positions went to Compaq staff . My wife stayed for about a year and left to go to IBM.

Well considering HP binned it's the manufacturing of most things HP except printers, it was pretty significant overseas too. Yes they mostly kept the HP exec team, but processes, portals all went to Compaq. Good thing as well as most of it was complete rubbish. The worst period in my career was when the company I worked for at the time starting selling HP servers and workstations. Interestingly, HP kept it's Pavillion range of gear, which was pretty much the worst of the worst, and still to this day, is the least reliable hardware (with Microsoft being a close second) hardware we deal with (thankfully, which isn't much).

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#2616337 4-Dec-2020 14:02

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MikeB4:

@networkn my wife was an Account Manager at HP when the HP/Compaq merger went through. She said that in NZ it was definitely a Compaq take over especially in the attitudes of Compaq staff. It was not so much overseas. In NZ a lot of the HP staff left and stated new ventures like Exeed. A lot of the management positions went to Compaq staff . My wife stayed for about a year and left to go to IBM.

Well considering HP binned it's the manufacturing of most things HP except printers, it was pretty significant overseas too. Yes they mostly kept the HP exec team, but processes, portals all went to Compaq. Good thing as well as most of it was complete rubbish. The worst period in my career was when the company I worked for at the time starting selling HP servers and workstations. Interestingly, HP kept it's Pavillion range of gear, which was pretty much the worst of the worst, and still to this day, is the least reliable hardware (with Microsoft being a close second) hardware we deal with (thankfully, which isn't much).

And then Intel hoodwinked them into killing off PA-RISC in favour of Itanium, which was an albatross. Ah, good times with the old PA servers. I once shut down the wrong K-class server when I was a young lad supporting Vodafone's prepay systems as a vendor. So then they had two prepay systems off the air... And a K-class takes up to about 45 minutes to complete POST if you fully fit it out.

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#2616340 4-Dec-2020 14:15

Sad to see it sold to Kogan. Won't be surprise if Mr Barton & his OG team decide to leave the company early within a year or two when slowly become Kogan or Kogan decided to shut Mighty Ape brand and rebrand to Kogan. Soon more kiwis will know Kogan is a listed company in ASX and they will invest when they have extra cash in hand.

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#2616342 4-Dec-2020 14:24

@networkn off topic but the HP Superdomes were good servers as was most of HPs enterprise kit. The SME kit was somewhat OK

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