<story><title>H-P&apos;s One-Year Plan</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904787404576535211589514334.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexqgb</author><text>On dumping the PC Business: &quot;A beautiful absurdity...like McDonald&apos;s getting out of the hamburger business.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Zing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CrLf</author><text>No, it&apos;s like McDonalds getting out of the McFlurry business.&lt;p&gt;HP has a large enterprise hardware business with much bigger profit margins. This includes servers, storage, ethernet switches, etc. Everybody seems to forget this.&lt;p&gt;Given the onslaught of chinese PC manufacturers and the diminishing profit margins, this makes some sense (like it did for IBM, that also dropped their PC business but kept their server business).</text></comment>
<story><title>H-P&apos;s One-Year Plan</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904787404576535211589514334.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexqgb</author><text>On dumping the PC Business: &quot;A beautiful absurdity...like McDonald&apos;s getting out of the hamburger business.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Zing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daemin</author><text>HP did &apos;pivot&apos; in the early days, first into making electronic calculators and then into PC&apos;s.&lt;p&gt;Though this latest &apos;pivot&apos; into a services company smells a lot like what IBM has done, abandon its hardware manufacturing and go into software services and consulting. Some part of me hates that radical a change, especially since how many of these massive software consulting companies are actually needed?</text></comment>