Found on RB: By Barge: Wave and HP
Reply To: 43546 by ByTorKing Sunday, 13 Jun 1999 at 4:42 PM EDT
Post # of 43572
TorKing--In defense of Hewlett Packard.
First I want to say that was an outstanding post. I agree with much of it. I even agree with you to some extent with regard to HP but I think you overstated your case in a way too heavy handed manner. Check out the HP VerSecure home page and you will see that Wave is the only real player within in that HP home page section. I think the VerSecure home page is a strong counter-argument to your statement that HP refuses to to acknowledge Wave in a public way. While much of the stuff in that section is stale we do have fairly recent news items that suggest that the relationship between HP and Wave is still strong. One that comes to mind is a 2/22/99 ZDnet piece, not as earth shattering as I would like, but I think it is revealing nevertheless:
zdnet.com
---"As part of its ongoing PC security initiative, HP joined last month with RSA Data Security Inc. and Wave Systems Corp. TO EMBED SECURITY INTO PC HARDWARE(my emphasis).
---"Using HP and Wave Systems' Trustedclient platform and RSA's encryption technology, the companies will offer a new level of security for e-mail messages and Internet transactions. Trustedclient, introduced last year, stores users' identities in hardware inside a PC and verifies the electronic identities of the sender and the receiver in each transaction or message."
---When I read that HP and Wave intend to "TO EMBED SECURITY INTO PC HARDWARE" I may be naive in reading it and accepting its meaning at face value. Unless HP is lying or playing some type of verbal sophistry I think such public statments are very encouraging. And as you know there are very good examples where the HP/Wave relationship is made explicit.
---There are also many implicit public annoucements re: HP/Wave such as:
By Dan Briody
InfoWorld Electric
---Posted at 11:07 AM PT, Feb 17, 1999
GRENOBLE, France -- Hewlett Packard is redefining its strategy in the highly commoditized PC market, shifting its emphasis away from product development and toward more intangible offerings such as "customer intimacy" and "trustworthy PCs."
---"Not securing the PC is like leaving the castle door open," said Regis Duret, a marketing manager in HP's commercial desktop division. Duret would not specify what other PC makers the Trusted PC technology was being shared with, but did say that "security measures don't make sense unless they are standardized."
---"Leading PC security measures is critical to HP's marketing strategy going forward, even if it means as little as a SIX-MONTH LEAD TIME(my emphasis) lead time on its competitors."
---I happen to think that the above spells WAVE. I think it is would be worth your while to read the last paragraph carefully. It appears to me that HP and Wave have embraced as it allows Wave at some point to have a major marketing and distribution launch of the Embassy financed and marketed by HP(and if Embassy intends to be ubquitious it will need a MAJOR lanuch) while at the same time it allows HP to obtain at least "a six-month lead time on its competitors."
---Now of course if the current 150 million HP E-Services marketing push is unrelated to Wave technolgy(ie., Trusted Client and Hardware metering) then many on this board have been spinning one heck of a fantastic mirage. And, yes, I accept such a mortifying finding as a possiblity. But remember with even considerably LESS evidence there were some of us who also saw and argued for a AOL/Wave connection. And lo and behold we find out that AOL had indeed invested in Wave.
The bottom line is that, HP has not, and is not "silent" regarding their relationship with Wave. In fact, I suggest that you put on some heavy duty ear plugs(and snug and twist them in tight!) if you are lucky enough to be forewarned about any imminent major HP/Wave announcement. The noise will be deafening...especially if you are standing near me!
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