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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: 3, Informative) by VLM on Monday October 06 2014, @02:16PM
In the old days, HP made and sold market leading EE tools. Generators and scopes and meters and tools. Expensive stuff but very capable and technologically leading the pack. Had an excellent reputation as a marketing trademark among the EE people.
They split that into Agilent a decade or two ago, and about a year ago split Agilent again into "bs" keeping the name Agilent and a new company (don't remember name) which will keep on making great EE tools, I suppose.
Its interesting that as a business they insist on branching out from their market leadership position where they're very good at what they do, and continually repetitively throw the EE market under the bus in favor of business sectors they're not very good at.
I'd be interested to hear if HP actually does anything anymore other than market brand names and sign Chinese manufacturing Foxconn contracts. If they don't actually do anything but market Chinese stuff then its not really very interesting.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 06 2014, @03:16PM
Back when HP stuff was built like tanks for longevity. Today, they would be considered too over-engineered and over-priced to compete with (semi-)disposable products from China.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by TheGratefulNet on Monday October 06 2014, @03:22PM
keysight. that's what you are thinking of.
read a long thread on eevblog about the poor chap who bought an oled handheld dmm, tried to update its flash code and bricked it. hp said that this nearly $500 meter was 'not fixable' and he had to rebuy it. after much email and public embarassment, hp finally replaced his unit, but did not repair the old one.
$500 dmm meter by hp. disposable, by their own definition.
THIS is why hp no longer matters for test gear (to many of us). I will buy old hp and agilent and the ones that can be repaired by us mortals (like old tek and fluke) - those are great. modern plastic stuff from china does not warrant the hp pricetag; might as well buy rigol scopes for the same features, quality and 1/10 the price.
a hunter on linked in asked if I wanted to change jobs to go to HP for software work. 10 yrs ago, maybe. 20, definitely. today, no way. HP is a farce and I'd only take a job there if I was totally out of money and there was nothing else left to choose from.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Monday October 06 2014, @03:39PM
"go to HP for software work"
I've heard stories about IBM along the same lines of if I wanted to teach people in India how to do my job, I'd have already moved to India.
I've nothing personally against Indians or teachers or teachers living in India, but its just something conceptually HR people seem not to understand very well, that at that time I'd rather do my job, than spend my time teaching people on the other side of the planet to do it.
GE is the same way from talking to people who suffered there in the past. "Oh you have a CS degree and like to code, cool you can herd cats as a project manager of our Indian outsourcing team, no direct reports or authority but you can take all the responsibility". And the HR people get all confused when you nope them.