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0 pointsskrebbel14y ago0 comments

> What Apotheker is doing is to change HP's business altogether.

No he isn't, he's reducing its scope to the most profitable and future-proof business units. HP is one of the world's biggest enterprise software business. Yes, also before they bought Autonomy. They just also make PCs and printers and the likes, which makes consumers not know any better than "HP is a PC and printer maker".

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masklinn14y ago· 1 in thread

Uh... before they decided to end it, "PCs and printers and the like" made up the majority of HP's business.

HPSD is a very tiny fraction of HP: 14000 employees out of 320000 worldwide, and that's after having bought 15 companies in barely 5 years. We're talking $3.5bn revenue, out of $126bn for the whole company. HP is a very small software business, it's a big hardware and services business: HPES, formerly EDS, makes up ~$35bn of HP's revenue

teyc14y ago

That reminds me, HP acquired an Australian company Tower Software back in 2008 [1]. That was three years ago. I think these acquisitions have paid dividends and now HP are signalling they are "all in" and put up all their chips in the software and services space.

[1] http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2008/080331xb.html

_delirium14y ago

I'm not sure I'd relegate PCs+printers to just the "also make" category; they make up about half HP's revenue, and almost 2/3 of its profits.

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