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The Wall Street Journal is reporting ( http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/hewlett-packard-plans-to-break-in-two-1412530028-lMyQjAxMTE0OTAzNTEwNjUzWj?tesla=y ) that HP will break up into two separate companies. According to the report, the company appears ready to split into separate "Consumer" and "Enterprise" companies, with PCs and printers ending up in one company and corporate hardware and services operations going to the other. The Journal says HP plans to announce the move "as early as Monday."
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/10/report-hp-plans-to-split-into-two-companies/
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Now KEN and BARBIE are PERMANENTLY ADDICTED to MIND-ALTERING DRUGS ...
(Score: 5, Funny) by Dunbal on Monday October 06 2014, @01:19PM
How about HP and say, Compaq.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday October 06 2014, @02:09PM
DEC and Packard Bell.
I'd buy a DEC server. I always kinda liked Vaxen and although it was a bit before my time I liked the PDP-8 which is what the early 80s home computers should have been, and the -11 which is what late 80s home computers should have been. DECs business model was horrifically out of date and messed up which doomed them.
My dad had a Packard Bell 286 back in the old days and after his upgrade it became mine. Typical hand me downs in a technological family... A strange machine more clone-y than a tandy clone but not as clone-y as a real clone, if that makes any sense. Strange as it probably sounds I'm about 99% sure it was sold by Sears, you know the legacy big box from the last century that's going out of business now because there's not enough middle class left to sell to, at least not when there's like 10 competitors all trying to sell to the shrinking middle class. Maybe once Sears, JCPennys, Kmart, and a couple others go out of business, Target might yet survive, maybe.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 06 2014, @03:03PM
I think Packard Bell deliberately chose their company name to sound like Hewlett Packard. My God PB boxes were bad. HP boxes were rather 'meh' but at least not crap at least they were able to remove that proprietary driver/hardware flavor Compaq had. PB was pretty much everywhere. I know they sold at pretty much all big box stores including Sears. Think I saw a few at the occasional KMart or Walmart.
last century that's going out of business now because there's not enough middle class left to sell to
Those companies are too busy playing redemption games to figure out what their customers want. JCPenny tried to get rid of it and it burned them badly. The only way to get rid of something like that is very slowly. I havent stepped foot in a best buy in a year because I rarely buy cell phones or TVs and even then I just get it overnighted from the carrier. I went to BB for software and music. Which they are quickly no longer carrying much of. I used to go at least once a week. I will tomorrow as I want a particular movie coming out on 'dvd day' and someone gave me a gift card. Sears/KMarts are just sad. They usually very dirty and mismanaged. The local KMart I goto has a few goods that are cheaper than the grocery store and even walmart. Target is doing ok because they have clean bright stores and crap that does not look like it is from the late 90s on the shelves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 06 2014, @04:18PM
How about H and P.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday October 06 2014, @07:03PM
Or cut horizontally, and (with some interpretation) you get UD and MI.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by meisterister on Tuesday October 07 2014, @01:53AM
How about we just split the first two words that describe HP's computers down the middle and get:
Utter
and
Shite.
I do actually like their printers, except for that the ink's cost is absurdly high. Maybe they should spin off their printer division...
(May or may not have been) Posted from my K6-2, Athlon XP, or Pentium I/II/III.
(Score: 2) by KritonK on Tuesday October 07 2014, @10:01AM
Actually, that would be more like UD and ΠΙ.
The second one sounds quite geeky—I might buy something from a company named after π.