The gossip all over around the Bay area this week is that SAP will announce its acquisition of HPE as a wholly-owned subsidiary (keeping at least for now Antonio and his team), after Microsoft stepped out of negotiations. Can someone confirm this, and if so, when will it be announced?
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Sounds like wishful thinking. HP has been tarting itself up and trying to find acquirers for several years now, without much to show for it but the various spinoffs. I can't see why SAP would suddenly become interested in it after all this time.
To second what someone else wrote below, it will probably be acquired after it becomes insolvent and the price dips to near zero.
Would be a blessing for HPE.
Meg had been working with Microsoft for a long while regarding acquisition. Why do you think we dumped all the debt onto HP during the split and then continued to split the HPE. This is the first I’ve heard of SAP being involved.
I, for one, hope that SAP doesn't scarf HPE because I'm tired of removing broken links from my favourites bar. Anyone remember http://documents.hp.com, the place where HP-UX documents could easily be found? Then HP reorganized that so that you actually had to find the chunklet documentation on some other website (while google retained links to the old documents.hp.com website) that you wanted. Then that was reorganized again. Then HP split off, and we had to look for hpe.com links. And then support was reorganized so that you couldn't find anything because HPE just threw the documents up in no particular order (it being easier to mindlessly automate that process after laying off folks who actually organized that process). It has gotten so bad that I'm better off putting docstore and manualslib in my favourites bar, rather than saving an HPE URL that is sure to break in the next year or so.
Would have bern beliveable until you mentioned Microsoft. The best strategy would be to wait for bankruptcy and then pick up the pieces
Why would a leading software company buy a hardware company? Especially since Oracle's purchase of Sun didn't work out.
I hope the fake news machine stays out of this forum. I really do.
Wild conspiracy theory for you...
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May-a-happenin'-be, maybe... Emperor Nero and Minions (PLUS The Meggot maybe?) have let loose a rumor to drive the HPE stock up some more, so that they can all cash out some more. They may even be using thelayoff.com to further the rumors?
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Suggestion: Can someone please start up LayEmAllOff.com for of all the mis-management and HR trolls? THAT would be a better web-site label, to catch the mind-set of these trolls!
Who are you? I think I have an idea... The announcement won't be done until the beginning of October, and won't "materialize" until the HPE Next optimization is complete by mid 2019.
Well, it looks this will become pretty soon the worst guarded secret in Silicon Valley... Still in conversations - HPEs board is trying to position it as a "merger", and they are getting a lot of push back (MS already threw the towel). The formal announcement "was" expected by the end of Q3 of this year, but I say "was" because most probably they'll need to pull up that date now....