HP – the case for break up. Part II
All change at HP. Former HP director Thomas Perkin has spoken out describing that the HP executive as “the worst board in the history of business”. He cited the fact that in spite of the Mark Hurd debacle “when the committee finally chose Mr Apotheker, and again suggested that other directors meet him, none did… [...]
Read the rest of this entryHP needs to be broken up
“HP has lost its soul” so said Leo Apotheker on 11th March 2011. Yesterday that statement became all too apparent. Wall Street gave a “thumbs up” to the leaked HP board meeting story that sees the hapless Leo fighting to remain CEO. Stock pushed up more than 7% initially. A fillip for shareholders who have [...]
Read the rest of this entryAutonomy the jewel in HP’s Crown
How little the US stock market understands about what most European pundits call “the world’s hottest technology company”. Autonomy’s acquisition by HP deserves to be hailed as the best decision ever made by Leo Apotheker and the HP board. The second best decision ever was the announcement is that this transaction combined with the sale [...]
Read the rest of this entryCloud – Forget the hype, this is the Reality
Every day we hear more comments about the Cloud being yet another fad or a new technology hype which will go away. We must confess that this was our first reaction too. However this is as a result of focus on the hardware side of things, debating what is a Cloud “public” or “private” and [...]
Read the rest of this entryA tale of two halves
After the biggest one day fall in the FTSE index for five months there was a small recovery the next day which was attributed in no small part to a single market sector report from the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply stating “UK service sector activity increases at strongest pace in four months during [...]
Read the rest of this entryCLOUD – don’t let technobabble cloud your judgement
As a new year dawns, it’s time to resolve to face up to so-called new IT trends and recognise that they are often merely marketing terms repackaged for the new generation and are far from new. They are merely re-inventions or groupings of services with a new name. At the end of May in a [...]
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