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.
Didja hear about the Michigan “DMV” scandal involving HP subsidiary EDS?
Maybe HP is circling the drain. If so, good riddance.
I hadn’t seen that. Not unexpected, though.
HP used to be a great company, as companies go anyway. But the financial vampires attached themselves to it and drained of it all vitality.