RE: More History on HP
All the cut backs you mention, finally ending all the "saved" money going into the pockets of upper management and large stock holders, is symptomatic of the greed that controls essentially all corporations these days. The people at the top rape the company and its employees for their own short term benefit. The affects spread right up to the stock market -- the thinking is that if a little greed is good a lot of greed is better.
HP's move to the software and services business model says more about the use of patents to make quick bucks suing folks who actually produce hardware and software creatively using patents that are so vague they could read on ringer washing machines.
