Talk:Agilent Technologies

message: "buying Apollo Computer"
Is that where the absolutely horrible, cheap, short lived line of HP Apollo inkjet printers came from?
:: No, Apollo Computer made UNIX Workstations. The Printer line has nothing to do with them. Tsubasa 09:39, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Printer question

message: The link to Verigy in the main article just redirects back here to Agilent Technologies.  Please someone create a stub page for Verigy. DFH 12:52, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is your chance to shine! Be bold and do it! :Atlant 12:57, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done! (& thanks for the encouragement) DFH 18:13, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Verigy 

message: I removed the statement:
:Some claim that Agilent, not HP, is the direct successor of the company culture invented by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard  and known as the HP Way.
It appears to be a vestige of the above discussion from several years ago, but now it sticks out as unsourced POV (and POV isn't neutralized by attributing statements to "some"). Tlesher 17:02, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In addition the assertion is not even true. I worked for Agilent for 5 years and the old HP way was long gone. The company had had many layoffs and sold off much of the business so few felt any sort of loyality to the company --RobertGary1 (talk) 05:57, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed unsourced assertion

message: The article says "All of the businesses not related to computers, storage, and imaging were spun off from HP in 1999 to form Agilent." The term 'spun off' is ambiguous to me for a couple of reasons:
* Is this is legal term that has a definition associated with it that I don't understand?
* Does it mean that HP is now the parent company, or is there no longer any association with HP?
It may be that 'spun off' is a term which means something specific to a particular audience, but I don't understand it. (I'm from England.) Could the meaning be expanded in the artical? Nicgarner (talk) 12:49, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think a better term is "divested" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/divest See meaning #3 SageGreenRider (talk) 04:19, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Spun off

message: What is the general consensus on creating a list of Agilent (HP Test and Measurement) products?  Personally, I'm always running across HP product numbers (e.g., HP 5334B) and wondering things like:  What is it?  When was it first sold?  Is it still being sold?  Is there a replacement/upgrade?  What makes the "A" different from the "B" model?
Is this suitable material for wikipedia?
Scottr9 (talk) 17:27, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: mmm I don't really think it's suitable for wikipedia. BTW in my experience you can usually find the products on agilent's site. For example the 5334B is an obsolete and no longer supported "100 MHz Universal Counter" and the recommended replacement is the 53220A. Plugwash (talk) 02:13, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: List of products?

message: This article reads like a news release and I can't find a "good" version to go back to.  davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 00:15, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time to [[WP:TNT|blow it up and start over]]?