[Info-vax] HP Layoffs - 2019

[Scott Dorsey]

Neil Rieck  <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>I never understood why HP split in to two companies: HP Inc + HPE (why place emphasis on the desktop market at a time when many people were already moving to Tablets and Phablets?). 

First HP split off the real HP as Agilent (later Keysight) and kept only
the computer division.

Then they bought EDS, a dreadful computer services company, which became
HPE.  

Then they re-arranged things and decided to get rid of the EDS part, which
they are now doing (along with the server stuff that got mixed in with it).

Why did they do these things?  Because upper management sees a way to
make personal gains out of them.

>Anyway, it should be no surprise that we now see layoffs
>
>https://www.zdnet.com/article/hp-to-axe-up-to-9000-staff-globally-as-part-of-company-restructure/
>
>p.s. here, I hope everyone reporting this item are aware of the fact that HP Inc. and HPE are two separate companies -AND- that the layoffs are only in the former

It's more of the same, yes.
--scott
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