[Info-vax] HP Sells its Chinese server business

[JF Mezei]

from BBC:
Hewlett-Packard sells China unit stake for $2.3bn
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32840663

US tech giant Hewlett-Packard is selling a 51% stake in its Chinese
server business for $2.3bn (£1.4bn) to Tsinghua Holdings.


So, the PC business split off the server business into separate company.

Now, that separate server company has begun to sell parts of itself to
others ?  Is that correct ?

I understand that partnering with a local chinese firm helps with local
chinese sales, especially to governments.  But it looks rather odd when
you have a newly sorfed subsidiary dedicated to servers whose first step
is to sell a big chunk of its market to soemone else.

Would the cash from that sale still go to the HP PC business headed by
Whitman, or would it stay within the new enterprise server business ? In
the later case, it looks like HP-PC is setting up HP-servers to fail if
it starts to cut big limbs off before it even starts to walk.


It is a good thing VMS split of from HP. The quicker it is available on
the 8086, the better.