Personally, I think that HP completed its devolution in 1999, after they spun off their test/measurement divisions to become Agilent and left the rest to start dying.

But some of my friends place the date at 2002, when they merged with Compaq.

No idea, but this makes me less likely to go for HP metal next time I buy servers.

Who knows if the brilliant business minds currently in charge of the printer division will bring this magic to servers. I for one have no interest in finding out.

In 1999 the HP parts of HP were spun off into Agilent.