Re: Itanic is sinking
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 12:42:44 +0200
Message-ID: <a1pbp9FtujU1_at_mid.individual.net>
On 19.05.2012 03:28, Mladen Gogala wrote:
> On Fri, 18 May 2012 14:49:46 -0700, joel garry wrote:
>
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>> Remember, in the world of Republicans, cutting expenses raises stock
>> prices and helps the economy through magical Laffing Curves.
>
> I don't think that republicans are much to blame for the current HP woes.
> Neither are democrats. I don't see any connection with politics, at all.
I think Joel was referring to the exaggerated believe in the market and the consequences for mindsets around the globe - especially in financial industry. Raising stock price has become more important than securing the future of enterprises far too often.
> Meg only applies the same unimaginative therapy
> as everybody else: layoffs.
That's what Joel was referring to, I believe.
> Well, layoffs will not distinguish HP from their competitors.
That's a very good point! Unfortunately it seems to be ignored all too often. Cost cutting by relocating work to countries with lower wages is another of those dreadful "best practices". I think one of the reasons is that people are staring too much at numbers of things that can be easily measured (wages for example). Things which do not have a price tag easily attached (e.g. additional time spent for home staff, communication overhead, cost of misunderstandings etc.) are simply non existent for these people.
> PA RISC was running circles around Intel chips, for a very,
> very long time. I still remember the shock when I executed "uptime"
> command on one HP-UX 9 running model 9000 and the answer that came back
> was "2733 days". GLanceplus was light years ahead of top. OmniBack used
> to be excellent.
Wow!
Cheers
robert
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