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HP Plans to Split into Two Companies.

posted by LaminatorX on Monday October 06 2014, @01:10PM   
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/

• Re:EE comments (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Monday October 06 2014, @03:39PM

  by VLM (445) on Monday October 06 2014, @03:39PM (#102469)

  "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.

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