Fiorina Says HP May Get Out Of The PC Business

Mikelgan writes: "Interex (the global HP user's group) is reporting that HP CEO Carly Fiorina told USA Today that HP may get out of the PC business altogether if the merger with Compaq fails. Here's the story."

Re:Finances...

[ninjalex]

I think Agilent is in the crapper because when the spinoff took place, their customer service SUCKED(I'm not aware that it has gotten better, new job, don't deal with them directly anymore). Right after they split they wanted to charge the company I worked for $100 to talk to tech support, this on a signal generator that was still under warranty. HP has been getting by on reputation for 10 years now. People had to wake up sooner or later.

--Alex

Re:Stocking inventory on a sinking ship

[Anonymous Coward]

Last time I heard, Dell had said that the components they buy depreciate at 2% per week.

You math wizzes can do the calcs on how much a whole system deprecitates per week based on component depreciation.

Re:Stocking inventory on a sinking ship

[JatTDB]

One of the things that Dell's success has been largely atrributed to is that they realize this point, and keep very little inventory on-hand. They avoid getting bitten too bad when the price of a given component drops overnight.

Re:Never mind calculators

[cunniff]

Like or hate Carly, you can't pin Agilent on her - it was done on Lew Platt's watch; see the news.com.com story:

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-229128.html?legacy=c net