HP imitates IBM to divest PC business or target

Lead: Steve Lohr, US website Gainesville contributor, published an analysis today Steve Lors that HP's decision to abandon webOS and divest its PC business was modelled on IBM and that acquiring software companies autonomy was a reasonable decision. The following is the full text of the article: the decision by HP last week to abandon the operation of the webOS device and divest the PC business did not give HP CEO Li Ai (Leo Apotheker) a high score. The move was in stark contrast to what Mr Lee had stated a few months ago. HP also paid a high price for the UK software company Autonomy.　　HP's move to sell a PC business could undermine the value of the PC industry.　　HP wants to quit the PC market, shifting its focus to higher-margin data service computers and professional software for businesses and governments, which is what we call business.　　The strategy of emulating IBM's HP looks familiar, yes, IBM's strategy, but it was used a few years ago. The first strategic correctness of the enterprise has been confirmed again recently. According to IDC, a market research firm, shipments of servers in the two quarter grew 8.5% year-on-year, with revenue growing 17.9% per cent year-on-year.　　By contrast, shipments of PC shipments grew 2.6% per cent year-on-year, with revenue growth of 6%.　　Companies use investment servers and data analysis software to help them process and analyze growing volumes of data from other external sources, from within the enterprise and from consumers, network traffic, and social networking. IBM sold its PC business to Lenovo in 2005, but did not leak the word before the deal, while Hewlett-Packard released the message ahead of time. IBM CEO Palmisano (Samuel J. Palmisano) has been in talks with Lenovo for months before the deal, and has visited senior government officials in Beijing to obtain their approval.　　IBM announced in December 2004 that it would sell its PC business to Lenovo, which was disclosed only a few days ago. IBM brought PCs into the mainstream market in 1981. For years, IBM executives have argued that PCs are just a strategic business to pull sales of other hardware, software and services.　　Palmisano eventually cut off the PC business, using investment funds and management resources for other businesses. The acquisition of Autonomy value Hewlett-Packard used 10 billion of dollars to buy the British software company Autonomy, the price looks somewhat expensive, but autonomy is the industry's leading advanced data analysis software developers. Again, HP is following IBM's footsteps.　　Most software companies have acquired professional software developers to help manage corporate information, such as business intelligence or data analysis software. Over the past few years, IBM has been unusually active in the acquisition market, with a total investment of 14 billion dollars to acquire 25 data analysis software developers. IBM has also introduced services specialists and researchers in its business,They now employ 8,000 advisers and 200 mathematicians.　　IBM recently estimated that by 2015, its analysis business revenue will reach $16 billion trillion. IBM and Hewlett-Packard were equal in strength before IBM decided to sell its PC business and invest heavily in software and services.　　IBM is now twice times more profitable than HP, and IBM has a market capitalisation of $198 billion, almost four times times the value of HP's $52 billion trillion.　　Or be acquired recently, it has been speculated that HP has become the target of acquisitions, and Oracle has become the hottest bidder. But Dave Novosel, a credit-rating agency Gimme Dave Noversol, reported in Wednesday that Oracle's only interest in HP's business was the server sector.　　He thinks Oracle has a better choice. Now that IBM is enjoying the competitive advantage of its multi-year strategic decisions, HP is now struggling with what IBM has been through. (Xiao Ming)