HP swaps WebOS leaders, Rubinstein gets 'product innovation role'
HP will install Stephen DeWitt as general manager of its webOS unit. Jon Rubinstein, who led webOS at Palm and HP, will take "a product innovation role" at HP's PC unit.
HP will install Stephen DeWitt as general manager of its webOS unit. Jon Rubinstein, who led webOS at Palm and HP, will take "a product innovation role" at HP's PC unit.
Oracle is under investigation by the Feds for bribery in its West Africa business dealings. The region is a tough place to do business and poverty causes corruption just as corruption causes poverty. But the entire sector is vulnerable to the problem and along with Oracle HP and IBM also have become entangled.
It used to be that the big high-tech companies would crow about this or that latest feature or speed enhancement when attempting to one-up their rivals. Now, the competitive posturing is just as like to be about energy efficiency as anything else.
Oracle OpenWorld kicks off in San Francisco with keynote speeches that were supposed to be about innovation but felt a lot like infomercials.
HP's Todd Bradley takes the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to talk about WebOS strategy, the future of mobile products and the company's growing resemblance to Apple
There are a lot of things going on at the moment around virtualization, cloud, outsourcing, on-premise, off-premise. I think that over the next five or six years, there will be an even greater disruptions in how organizations adopt and use technology.
Q&A Which one is it going to be? HP? Dell? Sun? Oracle? Harvard prof and author Clayton Christensen says the path to a giant's doom is paved with sound business practices.
An interesting thing happened on the way to e-procurement at HP. Though the company was pleased with the initial results, officials decided they didn't really want to manage and maintain this beast internally. Instead, they spun off Alliente.