All HW is ridiculously mrked up.
There's not much negotiating on 1's and 2's of servers. But when you're talking $250-500K (or more) worth, there's plenty of wiggle room. 10-30%, depending on the time of month, time of the quarter, whether they need to hit numbers, and so on.
And I doubt they're losing money at some of the prices I've gotten. They're just not making as much.
They’re not making as much money in the retail sectors, to be sure.
With HP’s ProLiant and StorageWorks devices leading the industry, I doubt they’re having issues with revenue.
HP’s biggest problem is that they’re gobbling up all these software and gadget makers and not doing anything with them.