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

[Kerry Main]

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> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On Behalf
> Of Simon Clubley via Info-vax
> Sent: 20-Sep-16 3:00 PM
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> Cc: Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-
> Earth.UFP>
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Hewlett: Are They a Take-Out After Six
> Years of Whitman?
> 
> 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 ? :-)
> 

Fwiw, my understanding of normal legal issues with deleting data
is that she could have avoided all this with a data management
policy in place which stated "after XXX days, all email will be
deleted from the server".

You have to prove via audit logs that you do follow the policy,
but that is apparently, the legal way to do these things. 

As far as taking hammer to old cell devices - the recommended
best way for most companies to clean or wipe old devices is
destroy the device holding the data, so that is in line with most
company policies. 

> >
> > [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) ?
> 

Cisco has its own blade servers but it is a small part of the
overall blade market.

Outside of the platform OS's, and some basic server mgmt. prods,
as a result of the spinning off its SW business to Micro Focus,
HPE does not have much software left now. 

Cisco might want to become a bigger infrastructure / Services
player in the same way Compaq bought DEC and HP bought Compaq.

> 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 ?
> 

The $60B Dell/EMC (including VMware) deal went through, so the
Govt would have a hard time stating a Cisco/HPE deal should not
go through. 

Related article:
http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/09/15/server-peak-x86/


Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com