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HP Plans to Split into Two Companies.

posted by LaminatorX on Monday October 06 2014, @01:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the What-about-the-calculators? dept.

AnonTechie writes:

PC and printers in one company, enterprise products and services in the other.

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 06 2014, @03:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 06 2014, @03:03PM (#102449)

    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.