Does this remind anyone of IBM in the early 90s?
We've known a while that the best HP Labs can produce is off the wall solutions for manure powered data centers. Could be a boon for Wisconsin and New Zealand, but it certainly doesn't showcase HP Labs.
So it looks like the HP executive suite in Palo Alto has given up on actual innovation, they just go buy it at whatever price they need to pay. If you can afford to blow 25 million on shutting up a dishonest CEO, then you can reward yourself lots of really neat other stuff as well.
What is HP really trying to do here? Even a 'in the trenches' HP salary slave like myself (I nearly slipped and said 'in the firing line', which off course wouldn't be far from the truth given HPs record of downsizing employees of it's acquisitions) can't really figure it out. The media and blogosphere is where I go for accurate commentary on HP, certainly not our intranet or standard sanitized internal corporate announcements.
Surely if it's all about the cloud, IBM is running circles around HP with it's quiet stranglehold on the mainframe market. I agree with the ZDNet article on that topic, that it's big iron that will allow IBM to dominate the corporate cloud computing space.
So, my bets on the new IT landscape.
IBM: Corporate cloud dominance
Apple: Consumer apps, device and media dominance
Google: Analytical dominance and cash machine ohne ende.
Facebook: please, please die a grim death at the hands of government privacy watchdogs before something really, really bad happens with all the data you are collecting.
HP: Services dominance with all that cumbersome cross-selling within the feature-bloat-cloud
Microsoft: Windows and heathcare (it's Bill's passion now anyway)
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