HP is Tech's New Top Dog? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday June 9, 2006 @06:02AM from the top-of-the-heap dept.

bart_scriv writes "BusinessWeek argues that HP is the new Big Blue: 'Now, tech is about to get a new biggest behemoth. It's HP. The Palo Alto, Calif., PC and printer giant had higher sales than IBM last quarter, and analysts project it will finish 2006 with greater annual sales than Big Blue for the first time ever: $91 billion for HP vs. $90.5 billion for IBM. The reason HP pulled ahead is simple: IBM last year sold off its $11 billion PC business to Lenovo Group Ltd. But, because the companies have chosen fundamentally different paths, with HP aggressively going after consumers while IBM focuses on corporations, HP is expected to grow faster than IBM in coming years. Since both use blue in their logos, you might say there's a new Big Blue in the house.'"

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is /. broken? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-06-09 06:53 · Score: -1, Offtopic

i have been having problems reading slashdot as of late. it seems it has been hacked or something and the hacker uploaded a new website design that makes it very unusable. i talked to cmdrtaco and he said that they are working to fix the problem. whoever hacked slashdot really messed it up bad and made it change colors all the time when you click on links. i can't wait till slashdot is fixed