The acquisition of Compaq by Hewlett Packard illustrated some strategic decisions that have impacted both companies and the computing world in general. Managerial decisions were assumed and the fate of Hewlett Packard, the old-school, development-minded and highly revered company and Compaq, the more energetic, marketing-minded entity hung in the balance. With the merging of the two companies, the new HP would corner a large portion of the PC market and be able to compete with Dell on a more level field. At the same time, strategic maneuvering would hopefully boost their IT sourcing to global level in order to vie for a piece of IBM’s market.
One of the main ideas that were proposed of the merger was that by combining, complementing and cross-sharing the products of each of the companies, that the new HP would control 18% of the PC market putting them at num
Many strategic decisions have been planned and implemented in the HP/Compaq merger. Perhaps some day HP will become the global services conglomerate that it strives to be. Or become the all-encompassing, somewhat ambiguous web services solutions provider that everyone seems to be striving to call themselves. Time will tell.
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