The usual reasons, or excuses if you will, that are given are one of
growth and expansion. Or in other words, HP might no longer see its PC
and printers as lucrative sources of profit compared to its more stable
enterprise-facing products.
It definitely wouldn't be the first major PC maker to do so. Sony actually sold off its own PC VAIO
business rather than spinning it off into a different entity. And it
also isn't the first time HP has tried to shed that business. In 2011,
HP already hinted at separating its PC business from what it considers
its core operations.
What has finally triggered this rumored divorce is that HP was said
to have been unsuccessful at selling its PC units to other makers like
Dell and Lenovo. In addition, HP supposedly now sees its more
home-oriented business as excess baggage that is weighing it down and
preventing it from making mergers on the corporate side, like the
previously speculated merger with data-storage equipment manufacturer
EMC.
Whether shedding off its PCs and printers will indeed free up HP to
make partnerships that will boost its other hardware and services to the
top of the foodchain and whether this move will again trigger
speculation about the fate of the PC industry is something we'll have to
wait and see if HP does make that fated announcement later today.
Tuesday, October 07, 2014
HP tipped to split PCs, printers from corporate business
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