Thread regarding Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) layoffs

That's nice that The Machine may exist and all, but a bunch of hardware with a lot of cool hardware ideas isn't going to get anywhere without an OS and software to take advantage of it. Did HPE mention anything about the Machine OS that will take advantage of this or are they hoping the open source community will make Linux work on it just because "The Machine" is marketed as cool?!

The tablet was decent, but they expected to see Apple iPad sales numbers, and canned it after one month when it failed to do so. It was priced like an iPad, and lacked any sort of subsidization from cellular carriers like the iPad got (there was a cellular version - with 64GB and GPS, but it never actually came out).

As usual, HP took a good idea and priced themselves out of the market.

Leo canned it, as he unveiled his plan to turn HP into a software giant and shed the vestiges of hardware. It was the start of his downfall.

The tablet was good. The go-to-market and overall market segment strategy failed miserably. We should focus on developing and milking patents rather than launching products based on them.

What was the problem with the tablet that HP produced a few years back? The one that Pacquiao was promoting?

I saw the handwriting on the wall at Discover. Endless promotion of "The Machine" which was vaoprware while the up-and-running cloud products and the converged servers got lip service. That is truly HP at its finest -- promote the future, deliver the past with 1/10th the features. The good products die political deaths, the bad ones get sold by the truckload at commodity prices.

The memristor was one of the technological projects being developed in HP Labs when Carly swept the whole bunch out the door in 2002 (ie could have been done by now). Chalk one more up for Carly's business acumen. google cooltown rocks for some of the other concepts (videos from the 1990s).

I hope this works fine. I have seen great products which at the end they become forgotten or too late in the industry. By the way my Touchpad still works! A good example of a good product but wrong focus and approach.

Martin Fink left because what HPE was promoting as "The Machine" was not possible with the current technologies, and it would take years and years to develop. He had a big clash with Meg, as she pushed for the commercialization of a mediocre technology that was not what he envisioned. More than radical, the current prototype is simply an incomplete hybrid that can be marketed with the hope to save HPE. This fiasco will be the laugh of the experts in the topic. I'm really happy you left, Fink. Don't let HPE damage your personal branding.

The never-ending-story... HPE comes with a great concept, but someone else executes and make money out of it. Then HPE comes late to the game and loose plenty of money. Final step is to try to acquire (at a hefty premium) the small vendors that screwed them up, and the cycle repeats again time and time again. It's always the same... We s--- at Go-To-Market execution...

"The Machine" will not save HPE. Those 2 years will probably become 5 as a minimum, and by then someone would have invented something similar or better.