It's Just a fall not a defeat
I agree. HP is down but not out. Large corporations like this seldom collapse completely. It was a few years ago that everyone thought Xerox was done for. They were in such bad shape, their stock dropped to 3 dollars a share. Most of my IT friends were saying they were done for. But one guy I worked with took the opposite track; he said now was the time to buy their stock, as it would probably never be that low again. Everyone said he was crazy but he went ahead and did it. Granted, they're not the company they used to be, but they're still alive and their stock is slowly coming back. The same has been said about Eastman Kodak on more than one occasion, and yet they're still in the game. And how many times did we think that Apple was finished? HP will survive, but it will never be what it once was.