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Customers Need to Plan for HP Layoffs
HP announced plans to lay off 27,000 people by the end of its FY2014. This is its largest cut ever, including earlier cuts by Carly Fiorina, Mark Hurd, etc. and unfortunate for everyone involved. The hardship and psychological stress HP employees will endure during the next two years is not something to contemplate easily. We [...]
Can Oracle Make it as a hardware company?
Commentary by Bill Moran and Rich Ptak The recently announced 5% drop in Oracle’s HW revenues (continuing a drop that began with the Sun acquisition) once again casts doubts on its future as a hardware vendor. Before acquiring Sun, Oracle claimed the hardware division would be profitable in a very short time. We’re still waiting. [...]
Mark Hurd and the Sun-Oracle Losses
Mark Hurd has been at Oracle for almost a year. He left HP one year ago and joined Oracle in September of 2010[1]. He was brought in specifically to work with combined hardware and software products. It seems reasonable at this point to examine how Sun is doing, and what its prospects might be. Many [...]
The Approaching Decision Time for Sun Customers
Oracle’s purchase of Sun Microsystems has forced Sun customers to evaluate their situation.There are questions about the long-term viability of the SPARC architecture. Customers naturally wonder what Oracle’s intentions are concerning Sun hardware. While Oracle and Sun management have attempted to reassure Sun customers, their statements to date have done little to calm the upset. [...]
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