Quoted - HP

Quick time out for some geekiness...

HP confirmed weeks of rumors today when it announced it would be laying off 14,500 employees as part of a large-scale restructuring effort. Since I own a laptop from them, I felt compelled to say something about it.

The release, SMEs Beware: Relationship with HP will change, says Analyst, is now available on our corporate web site. I guess my schedule for the next day or two is going to change a bit. What fun!

Updates...

• The San Francisco Chronicle - both articles by Benjamin Pimentel.
  
• July 19: HP plans to cut 14,500 jobs. Quoted opposite a Gartner analyst.
• July 20: HP plans to eliminate 14,500 jobs: Technology giant expecting to save $1.9 billion annually. Quoted opposite Gartner's VP of Research(!)
  
• CFRA Radio in Ottawa interviewed me live (!) earlier Tuesday afternoon.
• The main interview page is here.
• The actual MP3-format interview, entitled Biz @ Nite - Focus on Hewlett Packard, can be found here.
  
• Yahoo! Finance.
• Softpedia. Small And Mid-Sized Businesses Might Be Affected By HP's Restructuring.
• IT World et al - Same article - HP chief urged to take pay cut to augment cost savings - published through chain, including:
• IT World.
• IT World Canada.
• KQED - National Public Radio, San Francisco. No link yet: the MP3 of the interview is somewhere on their web site, but I haven't found it yet. Coming soon...
  
• TechTarget. What does HP's shake-up mean to you?
• The Envision Resource Group.