[Info-vax] More Layoffs at HP (not HPE)

[David Froble]

Neil Rieck wrote:
> On Saturday, October 15, 2016 at 8:45:40 AM UTC-4, Alexander Saprykin wrote:
>> суббота, 15 октября 2016 г., 15:33:31 UTC+3 пользователь Neil Rieck написал:
>>> HP plans 3,000 to 4,000 job cuts over the next three years
>>> https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/13/hp-layoffs/
>>>
>>> Does this mean that all the time and money spent separating HP and HPE last year was wasted?
>>>
>> Actually quite often business separation means preparing for a sale. They can sale "desktops and printers" part of the company (HP for now) to concentrate efforts on a more profit enterprise sector (like IBM did with Lenovo). These layoffs may be another phase of that preparation to bring HP in a more good-looking shape for potential buyers.
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> HP's plan to concentrate on the enterprise sector went with HPE (HP Enterprise).
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> IMHO, there has been a long-time faction inside HP management more focused on ink cartridges and PCs than computers in general. Those people got their wish last year with HP splitting into HP and HPE (with the new HP specializing in desktop).
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> Neil

Well, printing is still a decent business, but the desktop PCs time of dominance 
is past.  There are notebooks (still PCs I guess), but tablets, hand held, and 
smart phones time has arrived.