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It's amazing who has to be in charge now. Because, although not "exciting", hp really built up a reliable business with excellent service when something goes wrong.
So apparently, they want to compete with facebook for corporations and they want to make corporate server hardware and sell printers and scanners without selling computers. So...this is a totally business oriented business, if this goes through. But businesses aren't fashion victims, they buy the best for the cheapest.
Nobody but businesses are going to want to buy scanners (except the weirdos here who cut the spine from their books to digitize them). Printer sales will be less credible to consumers when you're just another name on the shelf, not part of their PC family.
Maybe my assumptions are all screwed up, but it seems like HP is going from a low margin to an even lower margin.
IBM got out of the PC business because they were seriously trailing in everything, despite offering a solid product and business class service to consumers, who just wanted "Fun" computers, in a booming economy. IBM was not going to grow in PC's without serious marketing and R&D. This is not at all the same for HP.
It's only unsettling because we've been so brainwashed to revere big corporations, we kind of can't really believe that they could be run by incompetents, ever.
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