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yeah this always works outquote:Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ +2.00% plans to separate its personal-computer and printer businesses from its corporate hardware and services operations, the latest attempt by the technology company to improve its fortunes by breaking itself in two.
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 14:06 |
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# ? May 16, 2024 12:44 |
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buy lots of whatever doesn't keep the HP name it worked for Agilent
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 14:08 |
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does hp still make good scientific equipment
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 14:10 |
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i have an hp microserver n54l as my home nas and it is thoroughly needs suiting
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 14:11 |
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Scott Forstall posted:yeah this always works out This is a plan to spin off the dead weight.
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 14:13 |
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:does hp still make good scientific equipment They spun that division off as Agilent.
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 14:14 |
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Citizen Tayne posted:This is a plan to spin off the dead weight. but the whole thing is dead weight
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 14:20 |
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Citizen Tayne posted:They spun that division off as Agilent. oic
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 14:22 |
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Scott Forstall posted:but the whole thing is dead weight ?
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 14:22 |
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see? free market will break up monopolies by themselves. the system works.
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 14:26 |
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heh. still having my morning coffee
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 14:32 |
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hp's tale is very sad
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 14:39 |
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H-P
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 14:47 |
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quote:The Journal recently reported that for much of the past year, H-P held talks to merge with data-storage equipment maker EMC Corp. EMC +0.49% , a deal that would have created an industry giant with a market value of roughly $130 billion. Although the talks recently ended, the separation could pave the way for H-P’s corporate hardware and services business to ultimately be combined with EMC, industry observers said. eww gross
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 14:48 |
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carly did it
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 15:01 |
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if they don't call one company hewlett and the other company packard than why the gently caress are they even bothering.
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 15:32 |
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Hewletts-Packard
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 16:06 |
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 16:11 |
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*~the computer is personal again~*
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 16:11 |
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maniacdevnull posted:Hewletts-Packard Packards-Bell
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 16:15 |
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Bell-End. lol.
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 16:17 |
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Egan Yardley posted:Bell-End. lol. lol
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 16:18 |
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looks like hp has low hp
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 16:54 |
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Last Chance posted:hp's tale is very sad you are profoundly misunderstanding the meaning of at least one word in this sentence
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 16:59 |
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one of them should add "labs" back into their name
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 17:02 |
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yeah HP should have spun off the industrial / test&measurement / etc type poo poo as it's own company instead of just firing all the good engineers. at least let them try to survive on their own, they made good poo poo.
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 17:05 |
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Sniep posted:yeah HP should have spun off the industrial / test&measurement / etc type poo poo as it's own company instead of just firing all the good engineers. at least let them try to survive on their own, they made good poo poo. They did that. Agilent Technologies.
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 17:05 |
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oh okay cool i thought they fired all the people
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 17:06 |
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Sniep posted:oh okay cool They spun off the best part of the company as Agilent Technologies and I'm sure someone in charge who made that decision made a lot of money from it.
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 17:09 |
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:you are profoundly misunderstanding the meaning of at least one word in this sentence which one
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 17:10 |
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Citizen Tayne posted:They spun off the best part of the company as Agilent Technologies and I'm sure someone in charge who made that decision made a lot of money from it. good. im glad, i was aware of the connection between HP and agilent in the back of my mind, but not really consciously that that was the eng groups spun off, it makes sense now and good for them.
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 17:13 |
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to be perfectly honest hp, with its ups and downs, has been pretty ok at preserving value as they go along, and i think this is another pretty good move a company just making high-end laser printers, calculators and oscilloscopes would not have made the money hp has done, even though it sort of dirtied a nerd favorite brand on the way. as it turns out nerd cred is almost exactly as worthless as it sounds like
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 17:21 |
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:to be perfectly honest hp, with its ups and downs, has been pretty ok at preserving value as they go along, and i think this is another pretty good move hp is in bad shape going forward. its core businesses are in sharp decline (printing, windows machines) and it has entirely missed the boat on anything that has come along in the current millennium (mobile, smartphones, tablets, web, services, social, etc). what, exactly, is hp good at right now? what field do they dominate? where is their high-margin golden goose? its on the way to that graveyard of once-great tech companies (enterprise consulting and contracting and staffing) where it will join xerox and ibm and eventually dell and microsoft. hope there are enough government agencies and f500 it contracts to go around for everyone (spoiler: there wont be)
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 18:06 |
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high school chum of mine works for hp and when I met him for coffee in 2009 he gave me unending poo poo about me being a useless state worker and how he wanted to vote for whitman so bad
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 18:09 |
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the fact that they called them the "envy" series is one of the only clever pieces of branding in the last 5 years
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 18:14 |
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also did I read that right they're getting rid of 45-50k people? or is that the total headcount afterward?
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 18:15 |
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the 55k number going around includes already announced layoffs, most of which are already complete they'll still have like 300000+ people between the two companies
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 18:19 |
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qirex posted:also did I read that right they're getting rid of 45-50k people? or is that the total headcount afterward? they are killing 50k people Arse points out that that's equivalent to google's entire workforce
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 18:19 |
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qirex posted:also did I read that right they're getting rid of 45-50k people? or is that the total headcount afterward? getting rid of 55k people
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 18:20 |
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I imagine a lot of those are overseas folks on huge teams but drat that's a big number
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# ? Oct 6, 2014 18:22 |