bogus rumor about HP selling PC business

This Eric Savits chap, and his parent company, Forbes, has to be among the more irresponsible rumor mongers in the industry, re-opening an unsubstantiated rumor with this extraordinary statement: "Hewlett Packard (HPQ) is considering selling its PC business" (that is a Direct quote from Eric Savits). Really Mr. Savits?

He goes on to speculate that such a move would be consistent with CEO Leo Apotheker's focus on software. Holy Black Angus, Martha, I like corporate intrigue as much as the next guy, but this is just pure nonsense. Its just rumor stacked upon rumor stacked upon rumor.

What a foolish piece. At least the DigiTimes rumor, on which you based your entire piece of nonsense, Mr. Savits, admitted that the possibility of HP getting out of the PC business was rather low. But you decided to re-state it, following with this simple oblique comment: "HP isn't commenting"

Well HP is commenting. Bill Wohl, HP senior VP and communications officer, stated very clearly today that it (the PC business) is core to HP's strategy. Here's the HP press release

 

and everyone thought that early reports of IBM selling their PC business (and printer business and disk business and tape drive business and typewriter business and network equipment business so on and so forth) were bogus too.

Yet, when it made sense for the parent corp to either spin off the business or sell it outright, the businesses were indeed disposed of.

I'd not worry about it nor worry about who is reporting it.

 

The IBM analogy doesn't hold. When everyone thought that early reports of IBM selling their PC business were bogus, IBM had not just announced a big strategy to connect all consumer devices together, lol thats what makes this stupid piece so laughable.

It's hilarious that a reporter as stupid as this Savits dude would stack unsubstantiated rumor on top of unsubstantiated rumor and come up with something that foolish. Sure when it makes sense to do so, companies spin stuff off. happens all the time. HP did that with its entire sources and analyzers and medical products divisions. HP used to limit its business to 10% computing too! But none of those things happened while HP continued to announce integrated strategies.

 

You seem to be willing to spend a lot more time telling us that the reporter is stupid rather than coming up with reasons why a sell off would be stupid.

 

the reporter is stupid because he stacked rumor on top or rumor. HP won't be selling off PCs because they are strategic to its business

 

It is indeed just a rumor. HP is awesome at computers, why would they ever quit?

The DV7/DV6 and the TM2T are some of the most recommended laptops on the internet, not to mention Pavilions have much lower than average repair rates!

 

If you're going to be an official representative of HP, then you need to back those statements up. I find it hard to believe that any consumer line of laptops would have "much lower than average repair rates".

Also:

 

First, I'm not an official rep or a reseller. And second...I'm sorry if I posted links. This site gave me this tag, it links back internally.

 

uhh.... dude. pls don't take this concensiously, but you did post a link, and then 2.0 removed it.

But we don't want you to have a rocky start here; many of us do appreciate the likes of HP Nate, so welcome to you as well what I'm wondering, though, is that somewhere in your profile you must have given some information that caused the site to tag you as a company representitive. maybe there's something you can change there. As an HP employee I'm sure you have rules and standards to follow, and if you are not officially authorized by HP to represent yourself here as an HP company rep, you might want to change that quicikly!

 

Oh man, thanks for the heads up, and yeah HP Nate is the man.