My old Fujitsu i-4190 laptop comes with HP hard disk. My friend's HP
laptop comes with Toshiba hard disk.
Any interesting explanations?

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--- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, "Claudio Valderrama C."
<cvalde@...> wrote:

>
> In the past, companies grew by innovation and effort. Now, they grow by
> cannibalizing other companies: the bigger fish eats the smaller fish.
>
> You may remember 10 years ago, it was possible to purchase hard

disks from a

> wide array of vendors. Then Western Digital's SCSI unit went out of
> business, Maxtor acquired Conner and finally Quantum sold its Hard

Disk unit

> to Maxtor. However, it seems the several acquisitions troubled

Maxtor for

> years and now it's acquired by Seagate:
> http://www.seagatemaxtor.com/
> True, Western Digital still exists for the IDE/ATA market and in the

SCSI

> side, you have Fujitsu, Hitachi and IBM, but do they have a wide

impact in

> sales?
>
> Will the day come when we purchase HW from a single vendor and SW from a
> single vendor? I find strange that neither IBM nor Seagate tried to buy
> Western Digital, but I find more strange that Symantec didn't start
> purchasing competing firewall vendors.
>
> C.
> ---
> Claudio Valderrama C.
> SW developer, consultant.
> http://www.cvalde.net - http://www.firebirdsql.org
>