[Info-vax] HP Securities Analyst Meeting 2012

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <506fd2d9$0$1078$c3e8da3$e074e489 at news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 

> HP wants to introduce a tablet in 2013. Likely focused on Windows for
> enterprise.

Those are two separate statements, right?  :-)

> No plans to introduce smartphone in 2013. If HP doesn't have a
> smartphone within 5 years, they'll be locked out of a huge market and
> suffer.

If they did introduce one, it would probably not sell very well.  
Perhaps it is better not to waste money.

> There were no questions on Oracle or Itanium. It really appears like BCS
> is the black sheep that is hidden in the closet and left to rot while
> networking, storage and X86/arm servers are given all the attention and
> investment.

Actually, being hidden in the closet is perhaps the reason why VMS is 
still alive at HP, similar to Rdb at Oracle.