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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:Remember they bought EDS in 2008 Re:Remember they bought EDS in 2008 (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 07 2014, @01:41AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 07 2014, @01:41AM (#102833)

  I think one solution is for more people to go independent and own your own business. With very few exceptions almost everyone I know that makes over 6 digits a year (from their business) owns their own business. I know people that own their own businesses and they net nearly 8 digits a year (I know, I've helped with their bookkeeping/inventory systems). Working for someone else limits you to about six figures if you are educated.

  Often the biggest challenge to something like this is regulations that require licenses. Sometimes these licenses make sense (ie: for safety and sanitary purposes you don't want any Joe Blow becoming a plumber or an electrician) but often times they are intended to limit competition into new markets. But if you like something and (here is key) you are good at it you can make a lot of money doing it. I know at least one person that lives in a multi million dollar home and he is an independent DJ (though he has trucks full of equipment and one speaker costs like a thousand dollars). He did it for a long time and ... here is key, he's good at it. Very good. And if you are good at something that people want you will get referrals and people will hire you and you can charge good money and make good money. Heck, if you are good at math you can be a math tutor and rich parents who want their children educated will pay you $20-$30 an hour to tutor math after school. Yes it's not a career but it's enough to help pay the bills while looking for employment. Get a(n accredited) degree in math and I guarantee you parents will beg you to tutor their child if you advertise your services online (I don't care what race you are). Even if you get an AS you can help people with algebra, trust me, there is demand. Heck, I know one person that is a retired math professor (he used to teach at various Universities like UCLA) that now owns his own math tutoring center and he tutors people with very advanced math. He makes good money doing it. But here is key ... you have to be good at it. If you are good at something your skills will automatically advertise themselves.

  I used to be an assistant swim instructor at a swimming pool and I really did everything I could to help students learn to swim. After classes parents would come up to me and ask me if I gave private lessons (they had their own swimming pools) and offered me good money to help teach their students to swim (I turned them down though. I told them the lifeguards gave private lessons but they told me they weren't interested). My passion in ensuring that my students learned to swim and participated in the exercises advertised itself.

  Yes, when it comes to big businesses there is a lot of nepotism and even racism involved. People complain that businesses don't want to hire them so how can they get experience? True but if you are passionate about something you can get good at certain things and make good money even independently. You can make yourself good at things like math, foreign languages, etc... Yes it takes effort and a lot of discipline but if you are good at what you do, if you are so good at it that you can equivocally show that you are obviously much better than the next guy, you can find work, I guarantee it.

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• Re:Remember they bought EDS in 2008 (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 07 2014, @01:45AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 07 2014, @01:45AM (#102835)

  errr... I misspelled unequivocally *

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