HP: We leave the PC industry

HP: We leave the PC industry

HP, with CEO Leo Apotheker, wants to sell its entire PC business. HP is the world's largest PC supplier, accounting for more than 18 percent of the world sold HP pavilion dv6000 batteries. HP, the world's largest PC supplier, wants to dispose of its entire PC business. The announcement, expected to create shock waves through the entire IT industry, was on Thursday evening, Swedish time.

"The HP pavilion dv6 battery has approved an evaluation of strategic options for HP's Personal Systems Group, including the ability to add PC operations in a separate company through a separation or other type of transaction," wrote HP in a statement.

In plain language this means that HP's board decided to either sell or differentiate its PC business from parent company by moving it to an independent company.

Whatever the decision will have far reaching consequences for the global IT industry. HP is the world's largest PC supplier in terms of sales volumes. The company's PC business is the core of numerous partner companies operating worldwide. At the end of June stood HP for a full 18 percent of global HP pavilion dv5 battery sales, according to figures from IDC.

In 2010, sales of HP's PC division, 41 billion dollars, more than 264 billion. As a comparison, Sweden's national budget in 2010 to 811 billion, ie more than three times as much. PC business accounted for about one-third of HP's total revenue at the end of 2010.

The decision to do away with the PC business is considered to be a radical step in HP's ongoing transformation from a hardware supplier to a pure service company. CEO Leo Apotheker, who was recruited from software giant SAP, has repeatedly pointed out that HP's future lies in software and services, rather than acer aspire one battery.

The whole thing should be considered in conjunction with HP today announced a takeover bid for the British software company Autonomy worth $ 10.5 billion, and decided to close its operation in the touchpads and mobile phones. The news of even reminiscent of IBM's sale of its IBM ThinkPad x60 battery business to Chinese Lenovo in 2005, for $ 1.75 billion.

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