After 17 years at HP/HPE I decided to leave the company a few months ago. It was a hard decision, I really enjoyed all the years I worked there. And I hoped I could be more optimistic about the future, but looking back the last 10 years, I really don't see the company making any progress. It is a succession of bad executive decisions one after another. And thus, while I liked and still like HPE people, products and customers, I completely lost my faith in the future of the company. The future was buying Palm, then buying EDS would be our future. Then buying Autonomy would re-position the company in the market. All history, and bad bets. Of course there is good bets like 3PAR and Aruba, but the success cases are unfortunately exception.
Then HP and HPE split. HP remained about what should be a commodities marked (PCs and Printers), and HPE would be the future. HPE then sold HPES/EDS, now it is selling HP Software. Meanwhile HP is up and running, much better than HPE.
Enough is enough. I lost my faith in HPE. As simple as that. So I moved on, I could not stay seeing all that I helped to build in the last 17 years being destroyed by bad executives that are only interested in their careers and bonuses.