In the beginning was Compaq, and HP was know for its excellent printers. Then the printers went downhill and there was Hewlett PacPaq, although not by that name. Wheile HP borged EDS, Dell borged Perot Systems. Oh, and TI was somewhere in that saga. And oscilloscopes.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> on behalf of Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 5:56 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: SUSE splits from Microfocus OK, kids, pay attention, because this will be on the exam. In the beginning, there was Hewlett-Packard, or HP. And HP was formless and huge, and darkness was upon the stock. And the Board made a decision: split the company! And thus was born Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)-no hyphen, and please don't call us "HP Enterprise", not sure why, even though some of the internal URLs were at http://secure-web.cisco.com/1ILmwkIn_TwKCIxaQtUmzZ7IJH8TTE_ZSP68ucM0phj8KaK4Fa33HWMBdfoeWOc57A98jvHuZtPDQ7GnApLEKogJr6RIDXQO_XH71WF4cWNpE1c81gYGTRQ54LYb47oOQGJKjhb4Q9oJAUZQcy8xKfklRxs3Hn_vF3aSW26Kv4nPvFLO6TwpN8jipYLSKUHA9BKQMRZgpsOC53R219Y9Yv1aOdKz6F79hro7CjLt2xgR7D_5GOXesdNrebJqWdWZEPRwlF6zmtAcM9XPtTdOMXy0mGk-VKH1w3Uu0iLxagCjloNuR8jA9Q2xEV2KdmVRlHERbCReSSrwRvC8ZkjC_WTNKI9oAC08fWlPy_t4NwoaA4Y0UiZkYOPcw3AjiAyw4/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hpenterprise.com <http://secure-web.cisco.com/1ILmwkIn_TwKCIxaQtUmzZ7IJH8TTE_ZSP68ucM0phj8KaK4Fa33HWMBdfoeWOc57A98jvHuZtPDQ7GnApLEKogJr6RIDXQO_XH71WF4cWNpE1c81gYGTRQ54LYb47oOQGJKjhb4Q9oJAUZQcy8xKfklRxs3Hn_vF3aSW26Kv4nPvFLO6TwpN8jipYLSKUHA9BKQMRZgpsOC53R219Y9Yv1aOdKz6F79hro7CjLt2xgR7D_5GOXesdNrebJqWdWZEPRwlF6zmtAcM9XPtTdOMXy0mGk-VKH1w3Uu0iLxagCjloNuR8jA9Q2xEV2KdmVRlHERbCReSSrwRvC8ZkjC_WTNKI9oAC08fWlPy_t4NwoaA4Y0UiZkYOPcw3AjiAyw4/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hpenterprise.com> . HP remained, as "HP Inc." (HPQ), selling the consumer stuff: laptops, desktops, printers. HPE took the "S" stuff: Servers, Services, and Software. A few months after the split, HPE announced that they were doing a "spin/merge": the Services were going to be split off and merging with what was left of CSC, forming a new entity called DXC. And a while after that, HPE announced that they were selling another "S": the Software was being sold off to Micro Focus. So some folks went: HP==>HPE==>DXC; some went HP==>HPE==>Micro Focus; some went just HP==>HPE; and some even stayed as HP the whole time. Employee counts are maybe interesting-these are numbers I've seen, don't blame me if they're wrong: HP originally: 300,000 HPE originally, after the split: 70,000 HPE without Services: 11,000 DXC: 170,500 (that "500" is oddly precise; with 170K, you'd think it would fluctuate that much on a monthly/weekly/daily basis) But HP now: 50,000 (a lot are missing, eh?) Micro Focus now: 15,000 (including SUSE and HPE) If you've been confused by all this, don't feel badly-the bloody trade press can't keep it straight, and that's their job! I've seen references to Meg Whitman as being "CEO of HP" within the last couple of months, and yes, she went to HPE. Like, two years ago. So there's no excuse for (them) getting that wrong. Thus endeth the lesson. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
