Hewlett-Packard has announced that Patricia Dunn, the company’s embattled chairwoman, will be relieved of those duties after the board’s January 18, 2007, meeting, but will continue as a director. Meanwhile, board member George Keyworth has resigned, effective immediately.
Jobs are on the line at Hewlett-Packard New Zealand as a result of the company restructuring.
Intel is set to announce next week that Hewlett-Packard and other vendors are ready to ship the chip company's vPro technology bundle in business desktops, according to sources.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is set to launch its "Rev. F" dual-core Opteron chip on 15 August, defending its turf in the server market against Intel.
Hewlett-Packard has secured a toe-hold at Peter Jackson’s Weta film studios with its new servers being used to render Weta’s Jane and the Dragon animated TV series.
Hewlett-Packard continues to dominate all sectors of the PC market, according to analyst firm IDC’s final figures for the first quarter of the year. However, Acer has displaced Dell at number two, a reflection of market concentration on notebooks, which showed 20.8% growth.
A move away from teleworking in Hewlett-Packard’s internal IT operation seems unlikely to be replicated in New Zealand, though HP NZ could not give the final word on the topic as Computerworld went to press.
Hewlett-Packard New Zealand has a new sales strategy for the mid to large business sector and has created a commercial team that will work alongside the sales channel to better engage with both the channel and the customers, says the company.
Hewlett-Packard New Zealand has restructured in line with the company’s new global strategy, combining all existing “customer-facing roles” into one unit, the customer solutions group (CSG), under the control of country manager Keith Watson.
HP’s new base in Wellington will be the side of the handsome bronze-coloured glass tower on Featherstone Street (above) which for many years has housed IBM.