HP has done a great job of cutting costs at EDS (which saved their ass this year)

but enterprise IT is not their direction

Enterprise

IBM and Snorcle......crazy larry will make this interesting but he will fail at hw

Consumer

HP and Dell

(Microsoft and Intel)

cheers from across the pond

STOP

FIRING

YOUR

STAFF !!!!

you idiot - otherwise there'll not be enough folks left to develop, deliver and support the products and services you're relying on...

Or am I missing something here?

<sigh>

".....Either that or HP needs to buy IBM's mainframe hardware and software business....." Erm... isn't that the shrinking mainframe bizz? After all, the PSI affair just showed how much faster and cheaper it was to run mainframe apps on Itanium, which is why IBM felt so threatened that they had to buy the company. If their lawyers can't find a way to kill Hercules then IBM could see a nasty drop in revenue as mainfram "DR solutions" go onto Linux on Itanium instead (which means Linux on hp Integrity in reality).

And why worry about Lenovo? After all, IBM is busy retreating from the x64 server market too now. Soon there could only be the shrinking mainframe bizz to retreat to.

so if the residue of the world IT economy shows life and money, HP expect the residue of their dispirited, hostile staff to stick around to deliver this miracle ?

Hope HP is not expecting much from their BizServ; we're using them and by God they're awful!