The entire future of a company or industry can hinge on one little deal. The $50,000 IBM paid to license Windows was the foundation for Microsoft and the technology industry for the last couple of decades. Apple’s licensing contract with Portal Player to create the iPod was nearly as big — and certainly huge for that company. The sale of 3Par could also be one of those pivotal deals, as huge firms like HP, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Dell, VMware, Cisco and EMC position themselves around the new “cloud” opportunity.
The license Microsoft purchased from IBM was DOS not for Windows.
you've made two points in this article that I agree with completely.
First, that 3PAR's value IS its people. I would extend that notion to say that the real value of ANY company is in its people, not in its IP or tucked away in some information repository as some might believe.
Second, that HP has a serious people problem. Executive managers like Hurd routinely pay lip service to the value of employees, yet drive them away or throw them under the bus on a regular basis. Hurd was, in my opinion too, no better than Fiorina
Loading ...
3Par: Pyrrhic Victory for HP or Strategic Defeat for Dell?
Posted by: Rob Enderle September 6, 2010 05:00 AMThe entire future of a company or industry can hinge on one little deal. The $50,000 IBM paid to license Windows was the foundation for Microsoft and the technology industry for the last couple of decades. Apple’s licensing contract with Portal Player to create the iPod was nearly as big — and certainly huge for that company. The sale of 3Par could also be one of those pivotal deals, as huge firms like HP, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Dell, VMware, Cisco and EMC position themselves around the new “cloud” opportunity.
First, that 3PAR's value IS its people. I would extend that notion to say that the real value of ANY company is in its people, not in its IP or tucked away in some information repository as some might believe.
Second, that HP has a serious people problem. Executive managers like Hurd routinely pay lip service to the value of employees, yet drive them away or throw them under the bus on a regular basis. Hurd was, in my opinion too, no better than Fiorina