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Coordinator of Residential Computing Kevin S. Davis ’98 said yesterday that HASCS did not know what is at the root of the repeated failures. But he said that Hewlett Packard (HP), the vendor of Harvard’s servers, was called in within the first half-hour of the failures, as HASCS believe the problem most likely lies with the equipment provided by the vendor...
...cause of this type of massive failure was clearly a low-level problem related to hardware or software that could only be addressed by HP,” Davis wrote in an e-mail yesterday...
...course, that sidesteps the question of whether HP and Compaq can successfully merge without leaving the floor slick with blood. Most large-scale tech-firm mergers have been hideous disasters. Compaq's last acquisition, the Digital Equipment Corp., was a textbook example of how not to do it. Good products died, top talent fled and resentment lingered for years after management cut 15,000 jobs. Now HP plans, upon the merger, to lay off 15,000; it also hopes for cost savings of $2.5 billion. A team of 500 is working full time on integrating the companies, though most...
...this the HP way? Certainly Bill and Dave would have balked at laying off 15,000. In 1970 they chose cutting work hours 10% over firing 10% of the company. On the other hand, Fiorina's gamble on greater growth is about as gutsy as their decision to build an oscillator in their garage back in 1939. "I respect her for being aggressive," says Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel, HP's largest vendor. "And I'd label her a work in progress." This is what the HP story has that Enron's doesn't: a heroine in transition...
...control of this $91 billion industry. As Microsoft gets set to muscle in on Nokia's turf, the Finnish giant is selling its own software deal with a rival operating system. Other cell-phone manufacturers like Motorola and Qualcomm are also releasing their blueprints. Even companies like HP, whose latest Journada handheld computer has a built-in smart phone, are getting in on the act. "Clearly, everyone wants a piece of everyone else's pie," says Sarah Kim, a mobile-communications analyst for the Yankee Group. "There's an amazing war brewing...