Bye bye Agilent?

[RFCAL]

Never Happen--HP would buy them back first

[USMC kalibrater]

I hardly beleive HP has any emotional connection to Agilent after 14 years, besides I dont think they are in the financial position to buy it...  Thats alot of printer ink

[RFCAL]

I BELIEVE!!

[CalLabSolutions]

I was talking to one of my contact at Agilent the other day.
This split will be good for them and good for the industry. 
New Test Equipment Co, will now be able to pay share holders and invest back into R&D of new test equipment. 

Mike.

[griff61]

Never Happen--HP would buy them back first

Maybe they could buy HP out...

[Hawaii596]

Just to gum up the discussion.... how about Rohde & Schwarz.  They are a direct competitor, and might love to get their hands on the RF/microwave group...??

[MIRCS]

Just to gum up the discussion.... how about Rohde & Schwarz.  They are a direct competitor, and might love to get their hands on the RF/microwave group...??

PLEASE GOD NO!!!!!!

[Hawaii596]

If it were between Danaher and Rohde & Schwarz, I would almost have to go with Rohde out of the two.  Maybe it will still be an independent brand with yet another name (bad move, I think).  Maybe they will sell of the various lines... who knows. 

I knew that would stir up the pot a little.

[griff61]

If it were between Danaher and Rohde & Schwarz, I would almost have to go with Rohde out of the two.  Maybe it will still be an independent brand with yet another name (bad move, I think).  Maybe they will sell of the various lines... who knows. 

I knew that would stir up the pot a little.

I would definitely prefer Rohde to Danaher if it came to that.

[USMC kalibrater]

I dont see why R&S would want or need a bunch of junk in their equipment portfolio.  Agilent has not made a decent piece of uwave equipment since the 8XXXx series.
If you havent looked at R&S lately I suggest strongly you do, they have totally repurposed their equipment interface and the capability and quality far surpass Agilent.

I personally miss the old HP days...maybe, hopefully they will go back to that however I highly doubt it...especially once they are under the Danaher umbrella.. 

[griff61]

I dont see why R&S would want or need a bunch of junk in their equipment portfolio.  Agilent has not made a decent piece of uwave equipment since the 8XXXx series.
If you havent looked at R&S lately I suggest strongly you do, they have totally repurposed their equipment interface and the capability and quality far surpass Agilent.

I personally miss the old HP days...maybe, hopefully they will go back to that however I highly doubt it...especially once they are under the Danaher umbrella.. 

I believe the 8 series was developed and marketed by HP, at least our 83630 was. I agree about the quality, Agilent dropped the ball when they started up. I remember you could talk to an engineer at HP and when they became Agilent the first question from them was if you had a contract or a credit card to pay for the time. R&S jumped right on that.

[Hawaii596]

At least the verbiage of the press release does not sound like they are selling anything.  It looks like they will just split the medical from the test and measurement.  The medical group will retain the Agilent name, and they will come up with some new name for the test and measurement group (what they call EM - Electronic Measurement).  So it at least sounds like no Rohde & Schwarz or Danaher (unless there are unannounced upcoming details).

[USMCPMEL]

I heard Danaher was planning on buying them.

[USMC kalibrater]

I heard they had approached them in the past with an offer...