Re: Fraud
Yep, good shout, forgot all about HP-UX.
They also had datacentres all over the globe through the EDS acquisitions (and others). The building blocks of everything you'd need to build a credible competitor cloud to AWS/Azure/Google, without having to invest (initially) in new DC facilities.
It takes a special kind of beancounter stupid to hold all the cards in virtually every technological area of growth in the last decade (and to throw it all away)...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
