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Oracle of DelphiSun donates art of rival HP co-founders
December 28th 2006 05:12
In what has been described as a coup for business interests, For five months, Sun Microsystems Inc. owned a life-size painted cutout depicting the co-founders of its rival, Hewlett-Packard Co., the product of a zany, cross-country art project.
Sun snapped up the painting for $6,000 in August after HP refused to buy it for the company lobby, and the piece became a jocular fixture on Sun's Menlo Park campus.
Photos of the men appeared on the Web draped in a Sun T-shirt, posed in front of Sun products, and the piece eventually made its way to the men's alma mater Stanford University after numerous other stops in the San Francisco Bay Area.
But the weary travelers -- actually the likenesses of William Hewlett and David Packard -- appear to have finally found a permanent home: the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose.
Sun has donated the Global Positioning System-enabled plywood cutout -- known as H&P and featuring the two men sitting atop the garage where they founded the company almost 70 years ago.
Sun boasted on a company blog that it has "officially consigned H&P to history" and "is happy to have helped two of Silicon Valley's most cherished figures find a suitable and dignified home."
Sun snapped up the painting for $6,000 in August after HP refused to buy it for the company lobby, and the piece became a jocular fixture on Sun's Menlo Park campus.
Photos of the men appeared on the Web draped in a Sun T-shirt, posed in front of Sun products, and the piece eventually made its way to the men's alma mater Stanford University after numerous other stops in the San Francisco Bay Area.
But the weary travelers -- actually the likenesses of William Hewlett and David Packard -- appear to have finally found a permanent home: the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose.
Sun has donated the Global Positioning System-enabled plywood cutout -- known as H&P and featuring the two men sitting atop the garage where they founded the company almost 70 years ago.
Sun boasted on a company blog that it has "officially consigned H&P to history" and "is happy to have helped two of Silicon Valley's most cherished figures find a suitable and dignified home."
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