After yesterday was first rumored, then confirmed that the traditional Hewlett Packard would split into two companies, will now be much more detail.
The casualization of HP will 75 years after selskapert was founded, and the reason is a need to be flexible in a technology world is constantly changing.
The two new companies will be called HP Incorporated, which will focus on consumer products, ie PCs and printers and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which will sell servers, storage equipment, software related to it, and other services for businesses.
Both companies should be roughly equal, with estimated revenues of around 50 billion dollars annually.
HP chief Meg Whitman to lead Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the company writes in a press release that customers will have the same options for how to roll out new technologies, but will relate to a simpler and more flexible partner.
HP Inc. will invest to be profitable quickly, and will invest in new technologies such as 3D printing and “new experiences”. At the same time HP Inc. work according to an established and clear strategic plan.
The transaction is expected to close by the end of fiscal year 2015.
The news of the separation was well received by investors and the stock price of HP increased by six percent after the plans were announced.
Analysts are however more skeptical: Roger McNamee company Elevation Partners says that HP is two to three years after all the trends, and that IBM did the right thing when they got rid with the PC division’s several years ago. – HP has been badly managed for the past 20 years, says McNamee CNBC.
disjointed comes more layoffs. HP has already started with a cutback process and it is expected that a further 5,000 will have to go over the split. Overall, HP will terminate 55,000 employees.
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