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Article #1937Re: Agilent Oscilloscope - ripoff or rebadge?
From: Joel Koltner
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 16:49
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 16:49
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"David L. Jones" <altzone@gmail.com> wrote in message news:481b06ff$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au... > http://rtr.ca/welec_w2022a/ > Ouch! Obviously not re-badge... I'm amazed that they can come up with the money to purchase plastic moldings and get some semblance of a production line going yet they can't find some decent programmers. I wouldn't be surprised if the problem is that they hired an ME for the case design and other mechanics, but they're doing the software and hardware design in-house and simply aren't that good at it... but won't admit it and therefore hire outside help. I'm also not convined that just ripping off HP's interface/mechanical design is really going to garner them many sales they'd otherwise lose... it's not like anyone's fooled, are they? I'd take the chance to try to improve on HP's design or at least come up with your own "style" even if the interface is largely the same.
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