Hewlett-Packard to cut 25-30,000 jobs.

This is not surprising. I am cursed with using (mostly) HP products at work. Their equipment is a decade behind the times at the enterprise level. Compared to things like Cisco UCS, using their gear is more like archaeology than IT. I could go into the technical details but these would bore even me.

Also their employees and support are generally not very knowledgeable, often have no real-world experience implementing their own products, and are not particularly helpful.

If I were in charge of purchasing, HP would be last on the list of vendors I’d consider for these and many other reasons.