Love it! On Tue, Jul 3, 2018, 5:56 PM Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > www.hpenterprise.com <http://www.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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Rob Schramm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
