Posted on 05/22/2014 3:18:39 PM PDT by blam
I pity the poor fool who gets stuck holding that stock when the market wakes up, gets some common sense and realizes HP isn't even a good printer company anymore.
If the market thinks that cutting 30,000+ employees will return HP to sustained profitability, they've got another thing coming.
“Carly Fiorina RUINED that company to the point it will never recover.”
Perhaps but they all got extensive sexual harassment training which looks really good on a resume.
You’re talking about the stock market like it isn’t rigged or something. There’s been a tank of funny money over the market since 2008.
I remember when a 500 point swing in the market was no big deal. When Clinton came after Microsoft, the market dropped 500 in an hour. Nobody batted an eye.
Now its rare it swings 250 points, and each day almost always ends up, no matter what.
HP lays off 50,000 - the market should tank, because its an infrastructure play.
HP sold it’s soul back when they sold their test equipment.
One good example of their ineptness is leaving OpenVMS virtually fallow.
As security becomes more and more important (and a bigger issue) having an OS with an architecture built with security (and reliability) in mind will become more and more important.
The first company that puts out a fully formally verified OS is probably going to get a *GREAT* headway in the market.
Really?
What did you work on?
I actually like MS a bit more than HP — at least MS does seem to be pushing some innovation/care for products, HP not so much.
I'd bet on MS to put out a fully formally verified OS before HP (I'd bet Linux will never be fully verified).
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