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When I was at Siemens, who had an astounding multi-national PKI on smart cards that integrated with everything, we had to use some software from Hitachi to chan
by LgWoodenBadger 5y ago
When I was at Siemens, who had an astounding multi-national PKI on smart cards that integrated with everything, we had to use some software from Hitachi to change our passwords. It rarely worked IME.
Hitachi is a name that I think of for power tools and heavy equipment, but not for software.
- sjm-lbm 5y agoI've been on a kick of reading books about computer history of the 80s/90s, and one of the weird things that I didn't know before I started was the fact that Hitachi got pretty deep into mainframes and they were a major IBM competitor for a time. IIRC, they have reorganized a lot but are still around and have followed IBM's path into consulting and selling other people's hardware.
- joezydeco 5y agoThe microprocessor arm of Hitachi merged with Mitsubishi's chip division and is now called Renesas. https://www.renesas.com/us/en https://www.renesas.com/us/en
- gumby 5y agoHitachi-san is a huge conglomerate. SEGA built a lot of hardware around Hitachi's SH CPUs. First time I visited SEGA I was surprised to see that they also had...Hitachi elevators in the building. I noted that I was giving my talk using a Hitachi OHP and Hitachi whiteboards and furniture. I looked up to see how much time I had and observed I was using Hitachi time. As it happens SEGA was never our customer though we did so much work for them; Hitachi paid our bills.
- kube-system 5y agoHitachi is the first name I think of when I think hard drives; back when HGST still existed they were always topping Backblaze's reliability charts.
- CRConrad 5y agoThey bought Pentaho, the ETL and BI tool maker, in 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentaho https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentaho