HP's Plea for Help
As the vendor's CEO looks to partners to help it grow, partners should take advantage of HP's change of tune, writes Sara Driscoll.
Hewlett-Packard
February 26, 2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 5:17 AM/EST
March 28, 2007
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 5:54 PM/EST
The PC Is Profitable Again
Thirty-second TV spots with Jay-Z boasting "The PC is personal again!" might say it louder, but for the past six months, John Snaider, vice president and general manager of Hewlett-Packard's Americas Business PCs, and the company's Personal Systems Group have been preaching to the manufacturer's 26,000 channel partners that "the PC is profitable again." Thin clients, workstations, PC blades, "green" projects and vertical solutions like Point of Sale have made the PC a comeback story for the PSG group, and HP wants VARs that gave up on PC sales or surrendered them to competitors and Dell to restart their PC practices.
