I don't get this, If you take out services and software then what is left. Servers only I guess. And with cloud computing, the demand for servers will only go down as the CPU usage will be optimized. I heard Big Data being thrown around, I can swear Granny Meg heard the word from many people and she liked it, if it was Big Dk, she would have liked it even more and giggled also - HPE doesn't know diddly about Big Data. Granny Meg's harping on high margin this or that is only a pipe dream. In time she will sell whatever's left. If you are not good at software and service, the chances are you are not going to be good at whatever's left. This Lady has just one thing on her mind and that is the $ signs, basically it is a garage sale and employees can go f* themselves.
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You guys know much more than Meg? How many companies you have served as Board of directors and how many as CEOs...She knows what to do.....you only focus on your delivery and not about the company strategy...OK? If you dont work for HPE then close your mouth and see what happens...dont make STUPID comments on a large enterprise and a leader.
OP, you got it wrong... She is not smoking, but smelling... It's called ethylene, which is a sweet-smelling gas once used as an anesthetic. In light doses, it produces feelings of aloof euphoria and delirium of being the only human on earth believing the crap that she says.
I'd like to think Meg-defenders aren't real people. I'd prefer to believe they are shills or somebody who is a troll simply playing devil's advocate to be funny, but unfortunately... they are real. Most of the people in my group have no love for our CEO; at the very best, they are baffled by the moves, at the worst, they can see the dismantling of a once-proud company by a greedy faction of MBAs who are far richer than anybody should be, only so they can get richer. You know the Meg-defender type - everybody trading opinions around the water cooler about the latest HPE news, and "that guy" shows up, showing disapproval on his face, and you can't help thinking how much "that guy" seems like one of those "political officers" so popular in totalitarian militaries, ready to report dissent among the masses and gleeful when dissenters are given the dreaded WFR notice.
Realization only dawns on those people when they find themselves WFR'd and understand those executives they defended don't really care about anything but lining their own pockets.
I agree with @1oga, CEO's are appointed a position and are expected to do great things with the tools, resources, and money they have been granted access too... Granny Meg is a pirate CEO, raping and pillaging a great company... That was her vision for HP, to run it a ground and jump off to bury her treasure...
@1bzy your either a drunk, or offshored, HP employee... You continue to drink the grog that Granny Meg serves you... But do us all a favor and just sit in the corner, be quiet, and when Granny Meg points at you just nod your head and walk the plank...
For the comment defending Granny Meg, we all know what she could not do and that is she could not give the company a direction and inspire the employees. That is an extremely difficult job but that's why she gets paid the millions if not billions. The employees get paid a fraction of what she gets paid and still do a first rate job day in and day out that earns billions in revenue for the company.
Meg is no visionary, period. If she was then her first move when she became the CEO of HP in 2011 would have been to steer the company into the cloud business as fast as possible - she and her crony assistants did not see it coming and now the employees must pay the price as there is nothing left but to sell the family silver. Her claim to fame is eBay where she was the CEO for 10 years. Please remember that eBay was started by Pierre Omidyar in 1995 and not Meg. She was at the right place at the right time and the company grew because it was a good idea and not because Meg was such a visionary. She was there to enjoy the ride and rake in the billions.
In the end all leader will be judged in the court of public opinion and right now she is failing. When greed and personal ambition takes precedence over all that is ethical and right then leaders are sure to loose in the eyes of others.
You guys know much more than Meg? How many companies you have served as Board of directors and how many as CEOs...She knows what to do.....you only focus on your delivery and not about the company strategy...OK? If you dont work for HPE then close your mouth and see what happens...dont make comments on a large enterprise.
She has no interest in growing HPE as a company. These people, this network of executives, are basically a plague of locusts flitting from company (crop) to company (crop), consuming all that is valuable, and leaving chaff as our pension funds absorb the drop to penny stock status after the execs sell their own stock.
This is the true way of business these days. Chop up businesses, sell the stock when it is still valuable, with faceless funds (spending middle class money) absorbing the massive losses - making the middle class poorer in the process.
All of these people sit on other boards, and they never fail anywhere but up. Look at the idiot who couldn't hack it on the NMCI contract, and was promoted to mess up NASA by the numbers.... or Meg's recent vote of confidence for the guy who was front and center on the Autonomy mess. The only business they know is the business of fleecing others.
I'm still trying to figure out how what is left is worth $30 billion myself. She was right about needing to penetrate SMB though. I almost see no HP there.
Industry is shifting. They will merger servers or sell to another company with hardware. This happens. I think Oracle should sell it's server division to HPE then HPE can have a market niche on a couple fronts to service those remaining sparc/Solaris customers.