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The HP / HP Enterprise split a couple of years ago is another example of this. Their messaging at the time wasn't so clear, but it became obvious they were divo
by dpedu 6y ago
The HP / HP Enterprise split a couple of years ago is another example of this. Their messaging at the time wasn't so clear, but it became obvious they were divorcing the successful printer/office segments from the struggling enterprise ones.
> But the dead weight is a company too. Does everyone who ends up working there just sort of accept that now they work at a company with worse financials and prospects?
I was on the HPE side - pretty much! This typically doesn't come as a surprise, though. The free swag with the new company logo makes it a little better, though.
- poulsbohemian 6y agoWhat was awful was that HPE had some solid products and could have been a great company, but management at all levels was so bad. I was at an HP partner at the time and it was years of watching a train wreck as they muddled along running their acquisitions into the ground.
- microtherion 6y agoI was also thinking about HP, but a considerably earlier split, when Agilent was spun off in the late 1990s. I think the motivation was the same, to divorce the dynamic printer/PC segment from the stagnant electronics segment. But many people at the time thought Agilent was more in line with traditional HP values than HP was, and over the long run, they appear to have performed better than HP.