{"id":1472,"date":"2011-08-18T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/hp-bandai_081811\/"},"modified":"2011-08-18T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T22:06:00","slug":"hp-bandai_081811","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/hp-bandai_081811\/","title":{"rendered":"HP: did it just rip off its Band-Aid?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HP may have just ripped off its own Band-Aid, relieving the agony quickly and avoiding a slow and painful journey at a time when the economy sits on a knife-edge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Today marks a jolting and sobering inflection point to a global mega-business that was in serious danger of developing multiple-personality disorder.<\/strong><\/p>\n
We’ve been trying to\u00a0figure\u00a0out what HP’s game-plan is for sometime now, as it attempted a multi-faceted series of strategies that go after hardware, software, infrastructure, mobility, consumer technology,\u00a0IT services and BPO markets. \u00a0Oh, and there’s Cloud in there somewhere too.<\/p>\n