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I think HP would have benefited more. Their products are highly commoditized. Their best unique solution was an Oracle pairing for server that ended up in the legal courts.
Ibm is in a better position by having unique services, software and mainframes. Call lotus a bad product, but ibm still has a stranglehold on customers who cannot migrate out due to legacy apps.
In the world of cheap cloud computing (amazon is buying storage at cents/gigabyte), HP needs truly innovative ideas to survive the next decade.
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it's more about style
source: http://online.wsj.com/articles/michael-b...1414776232
Michael Bastian Creates a Smartwatch That Looks Like a Watch
High-tech meets high-style in the MB Chronowing from Michael Bastian and Hewlett-Packard.
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THE MOST NOTEWORTHY thing about the MB Chronowing—the unabashedly guy-size smartwatch by designer Michael Bastian and Hewlett-Packard—is what’s missing: The timepiece has no touch screen to swipe, no microphone to speak into. It can’t track your steps or measure your heart rate. It doesn’t even beep.
Which is not necessarily a bad thing. “How many times have you been in a lunch and someone keeps checking their phone?” asked Mr. Bastian. His new watch is “intended to make you more polite,” he said, by allowing you to glance more discreetly at your wrist, hopefully less often than if you were wearing a techier smartwatch. It has the gentlest of vibrations to alert you to texts, emails and notifications from apps of your choice. It works with iPhone or Android so that “your phone isn’t dictating which watch you can wear,” and it has a clock dial on the face, because “that’s the thing you’re going to use 99% of the time,” he explained.
That clock does not have traditional hands, however. Those are rendered using the watch’s monochrome LCD display, which can also show messages, the weather, stock prices and other info. Swipe-accustomed millennials will probably marvel at the three chunky buttons, which can be used to navigate the watch’s old-school menus, activate a built-in light and control a phone’s music player. Battery life is an estimated seven days.
“Honestly, I’m not so much of a tech guy,” said Mr. Bastian. As such, the MB Chronowing will go on sale Nov. 7 at the online fashion retailer Gilt, not your local Best Buy. Two versions will be available: a limited-edition, all-black model with a sapphire-glass crystal and an alligator strap for $649, as well as a model that has just as much heft but is made with somewhat less refined materials (its three included straps are leather, rubber and nylon) for $349. gilt.com
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The CEO need to action immediately...
HP fourth-quarter revenue drops on weak enterprise demand
Hewlett-Packard Co said its quarterly revenue fell in almost every business segment over the year, calling into question its plans to jumpstart growth by splitting off enterprise services from its traditional computer and printing units next year.
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http://www.todayonline.com/business/weak...er-revenue
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"Overall for the fourth quarter, H-P reported a profit of $1.33 billion, or 70 cents a share, down from $1.41 billion, or 73 cents a share, a year earlier.
Excluding restructuring charges and other items, the profit was $1.06 a share. The company previously projected $1.03 to $1.07 a share."
"Revenue in H-P's PC-and-printer unit rose to $14.69 billion. Those businesses will form the new HP Inc. when the company's breakup is completed."
Appear the tough area is in enterprise unit.
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(26-11-2014, 11:14 AM)corydorus Wrote: "Overall for the fourth quarter, H-P reported a profit of $1.33 billion, or 70 cents a share, down from $1.41 billion, or 73 cents a share, a year earlier.
Excluding restructuring charges and other items, the profit was $1.06 a share. The company previously projected $1.03 to $1.07 a share."
"Revenue in H-P's PC-and-printer unit rose to $14.69 billion. Those businesses will form the new HP Inc. when the company's breakup is completed."
Appear the tough area is in enterprise unit.
The corporate capex isn't recovered yet post-GFC. IBM, Cisco are facing similar situation.
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It's a new market trend: cloud computing and BYOD are eroding companies view of Capex IT upgrades. Now most ordering are OPEX based and with cost reductions.
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HP isn't doing well...
HP says it will cut up to 30,000 jobs
Hewlett-Packard Co , which is splitting into two listed companies later this year, said on Tuesday it expects to cut another 25,000 to 30,000 jobs in its enterprise business as the tech pioneer adjusts to falling demand.
The latest cuts, on top of 55,000 layoffs previously announced under Chief Executive Meg Whitman, notably will be in its faster-growing corporate hardware and services operations, to be spun off as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, or HPE, on Nov. 1.
The other company, HP Inc, will comprise the computer and printer businesses, which have been hit hard by a relentless decline in sales of personal computers.
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http://www.todayonline.com/business/hp-s...e-business
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As I expected, the enterprise will be tough without the PC/Printer divisions to support the base cost and supports. The reduction is the right step forward.
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The split will formerly in completion next month...
Can HP’s split help it beat the PC slump?
BARCELONA — On the first day of next month, Hewlett-Packard (HP), the American technology giant that was famously founded in a garage in Palo Alto in 1939, is splitting in two. The company’s data centre infrastructure business — comprising servers, storage and networking — will become HP Enterprise, and its PC and printer business will become HP Inc.
It is arguably the biggest upheaval in the company’s history. While HP has bought and spun off many subsidiaries in its 76 years — from 2001’s US$24 billion (S$33.5 billion) acquisition of Compaq to the US$12 billion purchase of Autonomy in 2011, which turned into a major corporate scandal — it has never overhauled its core structure in quite such a dramatic fashion.
The two companies will be of practically equal size: HP estimates that HP Enterprise will have revenue strength of US$58 billion and operating profits of US$6 billion, while HP Inc will have revenues of US$57 billion and operating profits of US$5 billion.
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http://www.todayonline.com/tech/can-hps-...t-pc-slump
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(10-10-2014, 12:40 PM)sgd Wrote: I've been mulling over last 2 days about this spinoff so far have seen some of your replies and read others from internet but here's what I really think.
The real reason I believe they are splitting is to set themselves up to look smaller and more attractive to suitors for potential mergers. Almost everybody in this forum saying PC is in decline so any potential suitor who likes and wants to buy or merge with HP may not like to pay for the PC business. So by cutting out compaq or spliting it from HP core business will make HP smaller leaner minus the crust that nobody want and any suitor will also have a dotted line ownership to new HP inc (compaq and printer business) but don't have to pay for it is the beauty of it.
You look at all the players today microsoft ibm oracle they are all selling both hardware and business application of some sort all except HP. And all of them are playing the protecting turf game "buy my hardware get cheap license for software but buy or use other hardware pay thru the nose for the licenses"
I believe HP now already having potential suitors, they didnt or couldn't split away before I believe maybe back then there wasn't anything firm yet so I suspect it's all down to the timing.
So who are the potential suitors and how long will it take?
For that I have some idea but you need to look at the various strategic partnerships of HP. example 3com the network company was a partner before HP bought them out so I'll let you guys do some digging by yourselves. 
According to news reports 3rd of the 5 year turnaround plan of Meg Whitman is in 2015 when the company will split so by 2017 it is the deadline for the 5 year plan when it needs to produce result.
You see I was right. The newly spun off entity HPE is merging with CSC
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archi...ices-unit/
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