HP split

[Chris Pem10]

Remember.... this is the same HP that purchased the Palm OS for $1,000,000,000 a few years ago.

One billion dollars for a dead OS. And android was just sitting there, waiting for adoption.

Assuming a US-based engineer costs HP ~ $200,000 per year, they threw away 5,000 engineering man-YEARS buying that OS !

Let's just assume engineers in foreign countries are 1/3 the cost... I wonder what HP could have accomplisted with 15,000 engineering man-years?

Answer: fire them all and burp out another POS inkjet that uses $5000/gallon ink.