Re: HP Buys Compaq

On Wednesday 05 September 2001 08:49 am, Chuck Lewis wrote:
> Chris Rehm wrote:
>
> <I would think it would have been tough for them to want to scrap $20
> billion in revenue and spinning off the HP  computer division by itself
> might have been death for it costing the stockholders lots of money. This
> direction seems to have a lot more potential.>
>
> When you say "HP computer division" Chris, do you mean ALL computers (i.e.
> the midrange stuff and PC's) or just PC's ? Reason I ask is that HP has
> walked away from the PC business in the past. Not saying that necessarily
> means they would do it again, but they have done it :-)
>
> Chuck

I do mean all computers. I looked at their financial statement and it didn't
have PCs broken out vs. servers. Maybe I just couldn't find it. I would think
that PCs would be easier to walk away from since those are pretty tough to
make money on anyway. But they probably discovered that when they let
competitors sell PCs to their server customers, they are opening the door to
lose that server customer.


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