The Sun sales guy shines on HP

A Sun North America sales SVP has been poached by HP to do the same job for the Palo Alto company, signalling that it wants to switch Sun resellers (and customers) to HP ones. Randy Seidl becomes the boss of HP's Enterprise Storage, Servers (ESS) and Networking operation in the USA and Canada, and will report to ex-EMC storage …

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Posted Thursday 1st October 2009 14:43 GMT

jubtastic1

aha

Dull story but the headline made me smile.

Posted Thursday 1st October 2009 23:29 GMT

Anonymous Coward

How does that math work?

"Seidl and his team achieved margin growth of 80 percent and revenue growth of 35 percent from fiscal year 2006 to fiscal year 2008. In fiscal 2008 his unit was the top-selling organisation globally for Sun in terms of growth and per cent of goal achievement."

How does Sun basically go out of business with the last four quarters of "growth"

-7%, -10.9%, -20%, then -30.6%

And he is soooo successful? Check those references!!

I am done with this printer company....Itanium and HP-UX have become a joke

Posted Thursday 1st October 2009 23:29 GMT

David Halko

Let's hope...

Let's hope that HP will have a competitive product!

The Sun Open Storage line looks pretty terrific at this point...

Posted Saturday 3rd October 2009 16:22 GMT

Anonymous Coward

Re: Let's Hope

HP will never have a competitive product while they continue to go the route of merging Dell and IBM strategies. Dell sells everyone elses technology and IBM sells services... At least IBM still makes technology. HP is at the whim of the real tech companies... IBM and Oracle look to completely own the Enterprise Market.

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