[Info-vax] Hewlett: Are They a Take-Out After Six Years of Whitman?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-09-20, Kerry Main <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "We note that CEO Whitman has now been at HP for 6 years, just
> turned 60, and has a long held interest in politics. A sale of
> all of HPE could present an attractive final coup."
>

Perhaps she could put Hillary in touch with people who know how to
scrub email archives without them having to ask about it on Reddit ? :-)

>
> [KM - my bet is on Cisco with its $60B cash on hand as a means to
> go up against the new Dell/EMC for leadership of future
> infrastructure market. They could simply drop/sell the current HP
> network business]
>

On a more serious note:

Would Cisco have any clue about how to handle and market the HP
server range (especially the services and software) ?

Surely HPE are still big enough that there could be antitrust
issues unless the buyer is very carefully selected and hence any
potential issues around market consolidation are avoided ?

Simon.

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