[Info-vax] FWIW: HP to spin off PSG?

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On 8/19/11 7:01 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
> Something else I heard from 2 different sources: It is now surfacing
> that Hurd wasn't so great after all. Short term cuts which are now
> starting to rear their ugly heads. It looked good on paper while Hurd
> was there, but it was a time bomb, and Hurd left before the damage from
> all those cuts started to be felt.
>
>
> Another aspect which I find strange. If you look at Apple, they are
> shifting from traditional "PC" products to "mobile" products. (aka: from
> Macs to iToys).
>
> This is an area where they feel there will be growth, and also where
> Microsoft has consistently failed to succeed.
>
> While it isn't much of a surprise to find HP wanting to ditch the
> traditional PC business, it is puzzling that they would not wish to go
> into the mobile market.
>
> If you ever go into an Apple Place of Worship (store), take a look at
> the gadgets the employees have. They are glorified iPod Touch units
> fitted with extra hardware to be used as a wireless handheld  point of
> sales terminal. They swipe your credit card, scan the product code of
> what you are buying, enter your name/email address and voila. You get a
> receipt via email and/or printed one (comes out at the nearest printer
> in the store).   I suspect Apple ay eventually find a way to sell such
> devices into commercial markets.
>
>
> Shouldn't HP be in that business too ? Seems to me that HP would have
> greater potential since HP still has ome enterprise business (Apple
> doesn't really have it anymore since they ditched their office servers).
>
> At the end of the day, they could develop some Linux based devices and
> use the talent they would have inherited from Palm to develop commercial
> mobile devices. Or did Hurd already fire all the talent from Palm too ?

The bottom line is that all businesses in the U.S. are slowly getting 
the message, or should I say getting their nuts squeezed by the 
government by over taxation, and just moving to other countries that 
would love to have their business and not tax them at all.  This country 
has squeezed the crap out of businesses and most have either folded or 
left the country.

Even the Hewlitt family had originally objected to the Carly Fiorinas 
business decisions.  But that now is irrelevant. The hard fact is... we 
are now in a great depression!  Businesses will cut back. HP isn't the 
only one.


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