转帖注：贵为HP CEO的赫德因为2万美元还有一个性骚扰就被解雇了，炒了鱿鱼，对比唐骏“学历门”事件中新华都、以及社会舆论在“诚信”问题上的暧昧态度，让人忍不住会质疑社会和政府正在默许鼓励纵容一种什么样的价值观，对孩子未来的世界观会产生什么样的影响，这些的恶果最终都会反弹回来，砸到社会和我们自己身上。
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约4年前，时任惠普CEO和董事会主席的马克·赫德(Mark Hurd)在美国国务院作证时向美国众议院能源与商业委员会表示：“如果公司创始人比尔·休莱特(Bill Hewlett)和戴夫·帕卡德(Dave Packard)今天还活着的话，那他们会感到震惊，他们会觉得羞愧难当。”那个时候，惠普正因暗中监视记者和董事会成员一事饱受批评。这个不光彩的事件也导致当时的惠普董事会主席帕特丽夏·邓恩(Patricia Dunn)下台。当时邓恩甚至面临重罪指控，但所幸逃过一劫。 Read more…
看到新浪科技转译纽约时报的文章：谷歌苹果为何反目成仇，看了一眼今天早上最新的股票信息，如右图。可以看到，在当前市值方面，苹果和谷歌已经逼近他们的共同敌人和竞争对手 – 微软。尽管Google当前如日中天，在搜索、移动、数据、话音、能源等各个领域追逐“梦想”，但苹果依靠着ipod/iphone/ipad的“i”字辈明星产品和乔布斯的光环，市值还是明显领先谷歌。值得注意的是，他们的市值都超越了传统的IT大厂 – IBM/HP/Dell。
在另外一幅10年股价变动对比图上，大家可以看到苹果在十年里的增值也以614%遥遥领先，谷歌以423%紧随其后，微软先生以-40%大幅减值成功实现“乾坤大挪移”，让针对微软“反垄断”浪潮部分转移到了谷歌身上。:) 而苹果则得以在其独立王国中微笑着边数钱，边修理修理被用户踏破的门槛。 Read more…
By this acquisition, HP enters enterprise networking market with strong threat management product line from Tippingpoint.
The vulnerability and threats research of DVLabs will greatly improve HP’s capability and image at these areas, so that HP’s competition against IBM will become more effective. X-Force of ISS is one of the critical advantages of IBM over HP, at overall one-stop IT arena.
Historically, after the acquisition of an independent security company, their selling model and focus will change to more aligned with major businesses. As for HP’s scenario, their security product lines, including the IPS/UTM, focuses on their global enterprise customers and outsourcing partners. The security department, mostly, will lose some momentum to find and obtain new customers, instead, they will be more interested at existing customers, bundled within other bigger IT/service orders. Read more…
昨天看到这则新闻，很复杂的感觉。一方面觉得不新鲜，近年来Sun举步维艰，业务模式上的失败，一步错步步错，在和IBM/HP/Dell等硬件交锋中艰苦挣扎，虽高举Java大旗，还有人见人爱的MySQL, 但软件业务收入无法托起公司成长、中兴的重任。被人收购已经是不可避免。另外一方面，不免心中感慨。十多年前刚参加工作，电信机房里满眼的Sun服务器，Solaris是操作系统中的“圣经”，你用SGI, AIX, 甚至HP-UX，那感觉就是旁门左道。光阴荏苒，时过境迁，现在已是人家案板鱼肉。 Read more…
It’s reported that HP buys EDS for 13.9B$, 25$ per share. This is the one of the largest acquisition in the industry in recent years.
EDS is the 2nd largest vendor at IT service area with a yearly revenue of 22B$, while IBM is the largest one with 54B$ yearly revenue, and HP is the third one with 17B$. After this acquisition, HP will enhance its delivery capability and competitiveness against IBM.
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