HP Opensources WebOS: My Quick Thoughts
HP (previous CloudAve coverage) today announced that they are opensourcing their WebOS mobile operating system. After their initial plan to shed WebOS completely, there was a rethink once Meg Whitman took over as CEO. They were dillydallying for many weeks before making this smart move. HP today announced it will contribute the webOS software to [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudFoundry Is Ramping Up Big Time
I have high hopes on CloudFoundry (previous CloudAve coverage), VMware’s PaaS attempt, and consider the platform to be the standard for comparison in the PaaS space. Looks like it is not going to change anytime soon and last week showed that they are having ever increasing momentum in the market. No, they are not VMware’s [...]
HP’s Monkey Business
Bloomberg reports the HP Board is considering replacing CEO Leo Apotheker after less then a year tenure… poor Leo, after this and his previous gig as SAP CEO where he lasted 10 months, he might as well specialize on 10-month “turnaround” gigs. But it would be naive to think Leo could have initiated changes [...]
Proof of HP’s Financial Genius
The first hardware conceived and delivered under HP’s ever popular CEO Léo Apotheker is an absolutely incredible calculator – destined to be a classic. I already have three of them! I bought one in 1983, the other two I quite literally inherited. The HP12C (30th anniversary edition) will soon be available for $79.99 (includes fancy gift [...]
Good for HP (with a but!)
Last week the IT industry had a major bombshell. HP announced it’s intention to get out of the PC business, drop it’s WebOS smartphone and TouchPad products and buy enterprise software company Autonomy. If you don’t recognize Autonomy they are a major success story born out of research at Cambridge University. Founded in 1996 they [...]
HP Headlines, Pick A Favorite
HP used to be a great company. An amazing company, and the subject of numerous business books discussing innovation and leadership. Other than printers and calculators, I don’t have much HP around any more. Love my HP 12C calculator (RPN Ever4!). But the current HP is a joke and has been for quite some time. [...]
Spotlight on HP Open Source
While at OSCON 2011 I spoke to a Phil Robb, Bryan Gartner, and Terri Molini with HP. Phil is heading up the Open Source Program Office for HP, which we spoke about. Context and Clarity: I knew HP was involved in cloud computing to some degree, know they make tons of devices, hardware, printers, and know they [...]
OSCON: Talking Shop With HP, Heroku, ForgeRock, Open Source For America, and More!
Today and yesterday I specifically aimed to meet and interview a number of sponsors and companies attending OSCON. My big quest I’d assigned myself was to determine who was doing what, where, when, and why in the Open Source Community. Of course I wasn’t going to get to every company, but I was going to [...]
Egenera Touts Choice In Converged Infrastructure
When it comes to datacenter operations, there is always this debate on converged infrastructure: Should one buy readymade converged infrastructure offered by hardware vendors or use software for convergence. The former option implied vendor lock-in and the latter meant that that the converged infrastructure may be less optimal. Like many other debates in the industry, [...]
HP Joins The Hybrid Cloud Race
HP, who was a reluctant player in the cloud game for a long time, today announced some products and services aimed at enterprises who are looking forward to move to hybrid clouds this year. They are trying to position themselves as a cloud provider who can keep enterprises secure. Leaving aside all the marketing talk [...]
HP Ditches Oracle Siebel in favor of Salesforce.com?
Today’s big news is that HP is dropping Siebel CRM now owned by Oracle in favor of Salesforce.com. It’s a bit unfortunate that this is presented in the context of personal ego wars – unfortunate, but understandable, considering that Oracle has been on a warpath with HP ever since former CEO Hurd got ousted, in [...]
Containers, Computers and Catalan sunshine
Image by dannybirchall via Flickr I took a quick trip to the Catalan city of Barcelona earlier this month; surely the first time I’ve been to that city without seeing the sea. I was there as a guest of HP, to hear some of the latest happenings in their storage business. Over two days, we [...]
Léo Apotheker’s Ascension
Well there was a lot of jaw droppin over the announcement that Léo Apotheker is HP’s new CEO and that Ray Lane is joining the Board. Here’s all the analysis worth reading. It’s just that, well, hmmmm. I’m a Léo…
CEO Musical Chairs
<quick rant, not qualified analysis, don’t read much into it> So Leo Apotheker got HP. Or did HP get Leo? Either way, the former SAP CEO has just been named as the future savior of HP. Great pick. HP’s troops have never been more demoralized, and Leo has a lot of experience with demoralized troops. [...]
