Thread regarding Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) layoffs

Not to mention that Larry Ellison is the one who makes the big decisions at Oracle, not Marky.

Not to mention that MH is no more.

"Every month, another rumor. "Company is doomed!" "We are all getting laid off!" "Sky is falling!" "25% cuts coming in Oct., just in time for earnings!" "The government should step in!"
Nauseating; people should focus more on their work than the rumor mill. "
Anyone betting their income, reputation, career satisfaction, and financial future on an employer and does not attempt to understand the future direction and viability of that employer is a complete fool.

I agree with @ZDdl1OU-bvec . When HPE gets acquired by whomever (we all know it is inevitable sooner than later), it will be all about the IP related to a few R&D projects. Only a small percentage of the current employees will survive after the new owner(s) cannibalize all the functions & processes. Look at Motorola as the poster child of what will happen. How long did it take Google reduce it to ashes? The Goliath's prophecy was no prophecy at all, but a scornful and contemptuous way to mock and disrespect the stupid decisions that have brought us to where we are-and unfortunately we're not done yet. Kudos to the author.

"May be Mark Hurd may buy HPE and merge it into oracle !"

Oracle already has a legacy enterprise computing division, used to be called Sun Microsystems. These days Oracle is only interested in cloud computing, and I don't think HPE has much to offer in that regard, and even if it did, Oracle is spending most of its spare cash on stock buy backs.

Not to mention that Larry Ellison is the one who makes the big decisions at Oracle, not Marky.

@ZDdl1OU-Ceaa
Clearly you haven't experienced what most of us have, keep telling yourself it's all rumors. My experience is, eventually they all come to fruition. Some already have. By the way, if you're so concerned about the spread of rumors and being focused on work...why are you here?!?

Every month, another rumor. "Company is doomed!" "We are all getting laid off!" "Sky is falling!" "25% cuts coming in Oct., just in time for earnings!" "The government should step in!"
Nauseating; people should focus more on their work than the rumor mill.

Wait!!!
We were a services company once already,,, Aunt Meg got us out of that and flung that appendage at CSC spawning DXC.

"May be Mark Hurd may buy HPE and merge it into oracle !"

Makes perfect sense: if One brick won't float maybe two tied together will.

If that ever happens, that is te worst ever news for HPE and it may be time for a whole lot of people to quit.

May be Mark Hurd may buy HPE and merge it into oracle !

@biqh, the IP portfolio and the channel contracts are still worth some good money. Think of Google and Motorola. They won't care about manufacturing or the supply chain, but about a few very specific R&D projects and key Engineers. Antonio will be positioning the company for a smooth acquisition while maximizing the investor's ROI. If you think about it, what is now HPE stopped being a serious competitor years ago. Every single move since at least 2015 has been to prep the company for an acquisition. The prophecy was fulfilled years ago...

Why the hell would Microsoft, Amazon, or Google want any part of the rotting carcass that is HPE?

You won't find anything under "The Goliath's prophecy". Search Google for "Goliath, the flower seller" instead. Classic oldie. Still worth reading.

Take benefit of everything for your professional development and when the time comes...run like hell.

I think Antonio just said at HPE Discover what the stakeholders wanted to hear. Our current revenue model is not sustainable long term, and that shouldn't be surprising to anyone. I don't think there's an implementation roadmap at this point defined, but he just had to give them what they wanted to hear. So I agree with @2gxy... Don't spend a single second worrying about an impact to your job as a result of this at least for a while. But longer term, yes, this will probably impact a lot of people, and I wouldn't be surprised of an acquisition.

I am part of a Supply Chain Control Tower team and our management is saying that it's way too early to worry about this and that they don't foresee any change in our group at least for the entire FY2020.

Am I mistaken that the "service" part would still be on HPE hardware, and this would just change how its purchased? For example, you would pay a monthly fee for a "solution" rather than buy hardware and make the solution as the end user? Seems like it would only change the sales/purchasing/support strategies. And certainly, some customers will still want to purchase equipment traditionally.

So what does this mean? Layoffs in all areas/teams supporting manufacturing operations (in-house and subcontracted)? I can't visualize well how this will work at the end-to-end supply chain level. Basically, what I'm understanding is that we won't be shipping products anymore, but on exception orders?

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