Which company should I start a career with, Hewlett Packard (HP) or Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) as a software developer?
Guess it makes its easier for you now as HPE is merging its IT Services unit for enterprise customers with Computer Science corp.
Who are the lowest paid CEO's of Fortune 500 companies?
The CEO’s of Kinder Morgan, Hewlett-Packard, Icahn Enterprises, and Oracle (to name a few) have an official salary of one dollar. This is either because their founder status means their stake in the company is already worth billions, or because their pay is entirely contingent on their stock’s performance.As far as CEO’s without significant holdings in the company or a potentially sizable options package, there are a few executives with noticibly lower pay than many of their peers. Joseph Gorga, Brian Bierbach, and Robert Ingles II all have a salary of less that $1 million.
Is Hewlett-Packard a Fortune 500 company? Why?
Hewlett-Packard is #17 on the 2014 Fortune 500 link here: Hewlett-Packard . The list is ordered by reported revenues, and HP made $112B. Fortune also has a description or ratings criteria: See our Methodology
Beginner's bike 80mph?
Opinions -- everyone has one and they all stink. Including me. Mainly because the opinions are based on their experience and what they want out of life. The vast of motorcyclists want to have fun -- which generally means speed. They look at a 250cc as merely a trainer, something to get for a few months to be swapped for a big bike. Tell you that not bother with a 250 -- get "something in the 500 - 550 CC engine size. This will be powerful enough so you don't get bored too soon...." They want the capacity of doing 120 mph so when they something wrong, and "GEAR GEAR GEAR get armored pants, jacket, gloves, and boots in addition to your helmet" because they INTEND to crash. I am different than most -- I ride full time, for transportation. In 48 years I have had a 650cc single cruiser, a 450cc standard twin, and the rest were under 200cc. My current motorcycle has a step thru frame and a variator instead of a transmission -- a Vespa 150 that I ride on the L.A. Freeways. If you want to have fun -- talk to the others. If you want cheap transportation -- e-mail me.
What purpose does the Hewlett-Packard Company serve?
They sell billions of dollars of product and services. Their past acquisitions of enterprise software companies and reasonable hardware offerings have given them an effective and competitive platform to compete in the global enterprise market place. Growing a stodgy business when it's in the multi-billion dollar range is challenging but Meg Whitman has made many smart business moves that should sustain the company and assure they continue to service their base as well as any other tech giant so as to not lose too many customers. From the direct to consumer side their printers and ink are a cash cow and their PC business offers consumers products that perform at all levels for many different purposes.I worked at HP for a couple years and internally they had their issues but they continue to deliver products and services year over year.
Why is Hewlett-Packard destroying itself as a company?
HP, like Yahoo! and Kodak, may be suffering from a case of "We did everything right and lost anyway." It's akin to being a buggy whip maker: it doesn't matter how good your products are, or even how innovative, if no one wants to use them any more. HP has misfired in its attempts to move with the market (and I agree with @Gomathi that there were some bad decisions), but the split to for HPE and HPI wasn't a bad idea (at least for shareholders).
Why has Hewlett Packard become so mediocre?
The original Hewlett Packard has been split into 2 entities — HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) and HPQ (Hewlett Packard Inc.)— nearly a year ago. It is not clear to me that your comparative with HP 1990, added both of “new” HP corporation’s numbers back together. I believe that if one did that as part of a comparative exercise, the numbers would be likely to “look better” than your summary characterization.But still and all, that is a quibble. Neither of the two new HP’s (though they are each larger than the one HP of 1990) seems to have the shining, outstanding engineering excellence and the huge differentiation in its treatment of employees that the HP of 1990 had. There are a number of reasons for this; perhaps the first of which is that any corporation grows less innovative and less outstanding as it grows larger. A corporation whose revenue is $100 billion per year, has to create an new $7 billion dollar business every single year, in order to sustain 7 percent growth. Elon Musk’s famously fabulously successful Tesla Motors still has considerably less than $7 billion in total annual revenue, and it has been growing like crazy since 2003. Nobody finds a unicorn every year. Economies of scale are helpful, but at some level, absolute size starts working against you, and HP has long since passed that point; and this is true even after the original behemoth was split in two.In fact, Meg Whitman has announced another major move that she is calling a “spin merge”, in which HPE Services will be spun off and merged with CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation)— this transfers around 100,000 employees to CSC, and leaves HPE in a state and at a size that is much more tractable for C-suite executives to handle. Perhaps after that, HPE can regain some of the luster of the glory days of the old HP. We shall see, but I am not holding my breath— we also live in a different world than what sustained old HP.Thanks for the Ask to Answer on this question.
All these are Unix ( AIX, Linux, Solaris, HP-UNIX and TRUE64 ) Products?
Unix is not a single operating system. It has many flavors (aka. variants, types, or implementations). Although based on a core set of Unix commands, different flavors have their own unique commands and features, and designed to work with different types of hardware. No one knows exactly how many Unix flavors are there, but it is safe to say that if including all those that are obscure and obsolete, the number of Unix flavors is at least in the hundreds. You can often tell that an operating system is in the Unix family if it has a name that is a combination of the letters U, I, and X. The following is some of the well-known Unix flavors, with their Company name AIX by IBM BSD/OS (BSDi) by Wind River CLIX by Intergraph Corp. Debian GNU/Linux by Software in the Public Interest, Inc. Tru64 Unix (formerly Digital Unix) by Compaq Computer Corp. DYNIX/ptx by IBM (formerly by Sequent Computer Systems) Esix Unix Esix Systems FreeBSD by FreeBSD Group GNU Herd by GNU Organization HAL SPARC64/OS by HAL Computer Systems, Inc. HP-UX by Hewlett-Packard Company Irix by Silicon Graphics, Inc. Linux by several groups several LynxOS by Lynx Real-Time Systems, Inc. MacOS X Server by Apple Computer, Inc. NetBSD by NetBSD Group NonStop-UX by Compaq Computer Corporation OpenBSD by OpenBSD Group OpenLinux by Caldera Systems, Inc. Openstep by Apple Computer, Inc. Red Hat Linux by Red Hat Software, Inc. Reliant Unix by Siemens AG SCO Unix by The Santa Cruz Operation Inc. Solaris by Sun Microsystems SuSE by S.u.S.E., Inc. UNICOS by Silicon Graphics, Inc. UTS by UTS Global, LLC All the best.