Sell HPQ, buy Pork Bellies & Orange Juice

So an HP bod gets the job. Why should ex EDS staff care exactly?

Putting a syphilitic hippopotamus in charge would not be a worse appointment for all the difference this bloke will do for EDS staff's motivation now. EDS business will continue to decline because regardless of all the cheer leading emails these clowns send all we remember is "Hey we cut your pay and made a bigger profit . Aren't we good?"

We simply don't want to stay with HP and would welcome TUPE to another company (and I know they are not perfect) is preferable to the alternative.

Hurd has taken nigh on $11m in shares as cash out of HP in 12 months. He's cutting ready to run.

Coat? Because the exodus (that has already begun) will gather speed as soon as competitors start to recruit

Senior vice president of entreprise growth in china and india..

This sounds suspiciously like bureacratese for 'piss off' or 'go away'...

Exodus started last year

In the US, the mass exodus really began with the salary cuts in August. I made it out in November before the 3Com/H3C idiocracy gained any steam.

I'm looking the coat lined with my 5%, which I was supposed to get back because I left after Nov 1st...still no check. Coincidence? Doubtful.

More bad news.

This is a common tactic. Eazor the bad news man has given his fill of bad news so no one respects him or gives a monkey what he says anymore. Putting in a new bod means there is some new bad news for ex-EDSers on the way. My money is on HPES being spun off in someway to cover the inevitable decline in revenue.

Good news for IBM

Yes, it is - seriously - as another guy-who-might-have-a-slight-clue (Joe Loser) gets replaced with yet another you-need-to-sell-HPsUX-at-all-costs Hurdian brown-nose. If my experience is anything to go by, then ex-EDS customers can expect to see more, and more, pressure to replace anything that ain't Windows/HPsUX (and to a lesser extent Linux) with one of those OS choices. Which is great for IBM Glob Svcs, because this p***es off the customers who walk out come contract renewal time.

Worse still - this news appeared here (on el Reg) way before it came out through the internal mail. Great communications strategy bozos!

As to the comment in the article "Deep cuts to staff and benefits have followed.". Yes, so much so that urgent projects are having to 'borrow' staff from other projects just to get started - the idiots in charge have cut staff beyond the "bone" level. Try and get app development kit - ha, good luck with that - you'd be better off with prayer than requistions.

I'd love to think that the new guy will be able to correct the crippling shortage of resources and sub-cellar level morale in the ES biz, but I'm pretty sure he'll just toe the Hurd line and collect his fat bonus at the end of the day. Long term ex-EDSers are even suggesting we're at the stage where even that moron ex-CEO Dick Brown could do a better job - yes, it's getting _that_ bad!

To misquote the Simpsons - "oh my god, why won't someone think of the customers!" (Guess it's down to the frontline folks to do this, since the bosses obviously don't give a damn)

Got to share the Love...

Use to dread working for EDS, especially when they were trying to make their balance sheet look a little better. Having worked for HP since the take over, I am now seriously looking around for a new job.

Yes, Hurd the Turd (there definitely is a theme here), I think will be making a exit as soon as they realise that they have lost alot of business. I suspect that there is a reason why their outsourcing business never managed to gain very much market share. (Although to be honest, also supprised at EDS's success as well). The trouble is, the thing that is keeping them safe at the moment is the number of long running contracts, which will be expiring over the next few years. Guess what, my money is on the fact that they aren't going to get renewed.

What I guess HP doesn't get, is that firstly you have to look after your staff, and ensure that they are happy. The thing is, that they have never really had to worry about this, because they use to just sell boxes. What they don't realise is that disgruntled workers in the outsourcing space no longer do the hours to get the job done, don't take pride in the company, and are sick of getting emails, firstly to say we are going to make another 1000 people redundant, closely followed by another email that says we made a massive profit. People on the ground couldn't give a toss if the company makes a massive profit, especially if they don't get to see any of it. All they see is that, wow, geez, took my pay cut, and the buggars aren't even going to thank me for it.

Anyhow, the way I see it happening over the next little while, is that all the useful staff are going to go else where, the people who would normally find it hard to find a job even in boom times are going to be left behind, and the market share that HP currently have is going to just disappear and locked up with competitors until the 4 year deals are done.

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