07/31/2005

HP Gets Cobuyitaphobia of Apple's Synergy

More fallout from Fiorina's disasterous reign of incompetence

 

HP and Apple Separate; Apple gets Custody
Media (Apple)
Apple
Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday July 30, @11:12AM
from the can't-buy-me-love dept.
Kasracer writes "Yesterday, The Register reported that HP separated from Apple's iPod selling agreement. 'Doing its best to erase Carly Fiorina's mistakes, HP has culled an iPod reselling agreement in place with Apple since January of 2004.' It is unclear whether or not HP will create an mp3 player or partner with another computer to fill the void."

 

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07/21/2005

Cobuyitaphobia: Further Along the Deathspiral

Developers: HP Fires Father of OOP
HP
Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday July 21, @08:17PM
from the hard-times dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Wow. Hewlett-Packard has disbanded its Advanced Software Research team and sent its leader, reknowned programmer Alan Kay, packing. From today's Good Morning Silicon Valley: 'HP is bidding adieu to legendary Silicon Valley technologist Alan Kay. A founder of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, Kay -- who once said, "The best way to predict the future is to invent it" -- was instrumental in the development of the windowing GUI and modern object-oriented programming. He envisioned a laptop computer long before the first ones rolled out and his Smalltalk programming language was a predecessor to Sun Microsystems' Java. Hard to believe HP's cutting him loose.' Maybe Apple will hire him."

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07/17/2005

HP (Should have had Cobuyitaphobia Earlier)

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Huge HP layoff (10,000-25,000) expected any day

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/121...

By Therese Poletti
Mercury News

Hewlett-Packard could announce the layoff of as many as 10,000 to 25,000 employees next week as part of a plan to restructure the Palo Alto technology giant, according to Wall Street analysts.

Such a shake-up has been anticipated since HP Chief Executive Mark Hurd replaced ousted CEO Carly Fiorina in April. Some HP workers have taken to calling the expected reorganization ``the Big One.''

... On Thursday, Cindy Shaw, an analyst at Moors & Cabot, issued a report citing a Silicon Valley insider who said HP may announce a management reorganization as early as Monday that could include widely expected layoffs. Shaw's report was the first to predict job cuts could be as high as 25,000. HP employs 9,000 people in the Bay Area and 150,000 people worldwide.

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