Taking Stock: Hewlett-Packard Is Getting It Right

摘要

Industry insiders said merging Hewlett-Packard and Compaq would create a supersized hippopotamus: slow, clumsy, and easy prey. They said Carly Fiorina would never reduce enough costs to compete with Dell and IBM. They said Sun Microsystems and IBM would own the high-end enterprise, Dell would dominate the market for consumers and small businesses, and, eventually, HP would get squeezed out as each side moved to the middle.