An old-school reply to an advertiser’s retro threat

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b57fee24-cb3c-11e5-be0b-b7ece4e953a0.html

by prawn • 10 years ago

22 4 10 years ago

HP released the letter [1] in the hopes that it would make them look better, but the threat is still at the end of it. Not sure how that makes anything better.

[1] http://www.prweek.com/article/1382556/hewlett-packard-enterp...

stunthamsterio• 10 years ago

Having read the actual missive they sent, they come out looking worse in my eyes; not only was the threat still at the end, but it was crowned by a complete unfocused display of management babble.

kwhitefoot• 10 years ago

It just confirms Kellaway's point that the editorial side of a newspaper is supposed to be independent of the advertising. If we wanted advertising disguised as journalism or editorial decisions taken by the advertisers we could read a trade magazine.

Ayaz• 10 years ago

As recently as two days ago I finished reading Porter Erisman's "Alibaba's World" in which he described his and Alibaba's run in with both Meg Whitman and Henry Gomez, who were then working on eBay China. What I read Erisman describe as his bitter experiences with Gomez then, and I read described in the article today, came as no surprise to me really.

An old-school reply to an advertiser’s retro threat

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