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Hewlett, on the other hand, has his elephant gun aimed squarely at those big beige bundles of Intel chips and Microsoft software. It doesn't make sense to him--or to some industry analysts--to spend so much money on other people's technology, especially now that Dell seems to have the PC direct-sales market sewn up. "Strapping together boxes and selling them is not an area where HP is doing well," Hewlett points out. "Why get further into that business...
...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 and a $25 billion cliffhanger...
...also thank him for turning the cell phone from a simple communication device into a mini-PC. Of course, just as Microsoft and its longtime partner Intel don't actually put together PCs, they aren't going to start churning out cell phones. What the two companies announced last week is a plan to license their blueprint of the innards of a cell phone to manufacturers; wireless companies can decide what the handset will look like and how much of the Microsoft software it will contain. While vastly increasing the versatility of your cell phone, the insides are standardized...
...smart move, seeding the marketplace with Microsoft products and Intel chips under cover of democratizing the industry. (Two wireless companies have already expressed interest, according to Microsoft.) But that doesn't guarantee Gates another victory. He tried this strategy before by squeezing the same applications onto the Pocket PC, in an effort to steal market share from the popular Palm Pilot, but most Palm users preferred their current software's simplicity. Cell-phone users may turn out to be similarly wary. "The mobile environment is not simply about downscaling the PC world," warns Timo Poikolainen, a director of Nokia...
...unusual in the technology world in that they are basically commodity products—with Intel and Microsoft controlling the technological innovation, the “box makers” like Compaq and Dell have little basis on which to differentiate their products. In a sagging economy, conditions are ripe for a devastating price war and a consolidation of the industry, which we have in fact seen in the last year. Two of the major players—Hewlett Packard and Compaq—are doing everything wrong in response to this situation, while two of the others?...