Comments on: EDS acquisition makes HP Avis to IBM’s Hertz http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/eds-acquisition-makes-hp-avis-to-ibms-hertz/ A SearchStorage.com blog. Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:43:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: EDS shareholders to HP: not so fast — Storage Soup http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/eds-acquisition-makes-hp-avis-to-ibms-hertz/#comment-7125 EDS shareholders to HP: not so fast — Storage Soup Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:29:29 +0000 http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/13/eds-acquisition-makes-hp-avis-to-ibms-hertz/#comment-7125 [...] The news today was about a huge storage networking acquisition by Brocade, but another mammoth merger we covered here earlier is reportedly hitting a snag. The AP reports that some EDS shareholders are trying to pressure EDS into asking HP for more than the $13 billion it’s already been offered. Part of this pressure, according to the AP, is a plan to ask a judge in Collin County, Texas to postpone the company’s annual shareholder meeting. HP declined comment today. [...] [...] The news today was about a huge storage networking acquisition by Brocade, but another mammoth merger we covered here earlier is reportedly hitting a snag. The AP reports that some EDS shareholders are trying to pressure EDS into asking HP for more than the $13 billion it’s already been offered. Part of this pressure, according to the AP, is a plan to ask a judge in Collin County, Texas to postpone the company’s annual shareholder meeting. HP declined comment today. [...]

]]> By: Jesse http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/eds-acquisition-makes-hp-avis-to-ibms-hertz/#comment-7124 Jesse Wed, 14 May 2008 14:26:45 +0000 http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/13/eds-acquisition-makes-hp-avis-to-ibms-hertz/#comment-7124 That's, uh, quite the metaphor. HP's aquisition of EDS is a last and desparate attempt to stay relevant in the enterprise market. They are losing Unix market-share right and left, (I can't remember the last time I connected an HP server to a SAN), and they're having to fight Dell for every x86 architecture server they can. I think that this buyout is going to prove to be another Compaq for HP.... Expensive and difficult to maintain. (Although the fact that they are not trying to rebrand EDS as "HP Global Services" or something similar, leads me to believe they may have learned something in the process of the Compaq fiasco. Jesse That’s, uh, quite the metaphor.

HP’s aquisition of EDS is a last and desparate attempt to stay relevant in the enterprise market. They are losing Unix market-share right and left, (I can’t remember the last time I connected an HP server to a SAN), and they’re having to fight Dell for every x86 architecture server they can.

I think that this buyout is going to prove to be another Compaq for HP…. Expensive and difficult to maintain. (Although the fact that they are not trying to rebrand EDS as “HP Global Services” or something similar, leads me to believe they may have learned something in the process of the Compaq fiasco.

Jesse

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