HP CEO to split PC business

Xinhua News (reporter Jiang) yesterday morning, including CEO Li Ai (Leo Apotheker) and non-executive chairman Rey Lann (Ray Lane), including Hewlett-Packard executives in New York, Boston and London to attend the HP investors meeting,　　In an explanation of last week's strategic adjustment for the company's announcement of a spin-off, it said that only one Apple company in the world had successfully integrated the hardware and software business, which was only a special case. In Thursday, Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest personal computer maker, abruptly announced a "total or partial spin-off" of the PC business and would give up its fledgling tablet and smartphone business. According to the plan, the company will start to shut down the Touchpad tablet and brand smartphone in October this year, and in the next 12 months to 18 months to split or sell the PC business.　　and statistics from IDC show that last year, HP's computer shipments of more than 64 million units, the market share of 18.5%, is currently the world's largest PC manufacturers. HP's share price plunged 25%, affected by the decision to split the PC business.　　In this respect, Hewlett-Packard CEO Apotheker said yesterday that although the company is expected to split the PC business revenue will be reduced by 40 billion U.S. dollars, but other business can offset HP, and in the long run, HP will have better profitability and better growth prospects. and Hewlett-Packard decided to split the PC business at the same time, decided to buy British software company Autonomy nearly 11 billion dollars, HP's strategic transition path gradually clear. However, a domestic IT industry pointed out that the abandonment of hardware production of HP in the software sector is also not optimistic, because the current HP in software sales lags behind Oracle, IBM and SAP and other companies.