HP customers grapple with product support
"Our only concern is that we keep these customers buying HP products"
"Our only concern is that we keep these customers buying HP products"
"I think the merger is in trouble"
"The merger is a high hurdle, but they'll solve it"
HP blames confusion on information it filed with SEC early last week
"Be confident and if you are able, the future will work out fine"
The merger between Hewlett-Packard and Compaq should create one of the most plum jobs in the New Zealand IT scene, paying between $350,000 and $500,000 a year, plus options, plus profit share. What should incumbents Barry Hastings and Russell Hewitt do now?
"If I was a customer I would be concerned"
And so the worm turns. The only surprise about the proposed merger between Hewlett-Packard and Compaq is the timing.
On paper, Hewlett-Packard's proposed acquisition of Compaq makes sense. Combining the companies would create a powerhouse with a nicely rationalised portfolio of products, from high-end, fault-tolerant systems and data center Unix boxes, down through PC-based servers and desktops. On Day One the company would be the top supplier of PCs and servers.
"At the end of the day we can go to the clubhouse and have a beer"
New Zealand’s Commerce Commission may investigate the Hewlett-Packard takeover of Compaq.
About the same time that news of Hewlett-Packard’s acquisition of Compaq was breaking last week, the New Zealand head of IBM, Nick Lambert, was surveying the competitive landscape.
Business as usual
“I don’t see any reason why it should make any difference as a customer”
Product overlaps are daunting