Hewlet Packard/Compaq: The Largest Technological Merger in History

Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Compaq Computers have launched the largest technology integration program ever. In September 2001, Carleton (Carly) Fiorina announced that HP will acquire the Compaq Stock Exchange worth 25 billion dollars (Hoopes, p. 4). Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett-Packard and Michael Capellas, CEO of Compaq, raised the idea of ​​merger in a telephone conversation in June 2001. The initial purpose was to talk about license agreement (Hoopes, page 4). . Houston-based PC organizations Hewlett-Packard and Compaq were founded in 1982. After deciding the outline of the transaction in July 2001, after the merger was announced in September, the merger was over.

Before serving as CEO of Hewlett-Packard in 1999, I was an executive at AT & T and Lucent Technologies. As the first woman leading the top 20 companies, Fiorina oversaw a large merger of HP and Compaq. According to Mr. Forbes, this is the biggest technology merger ever. She turned to politics now and when she participated in the early stages of the recent presidential election she showed the ability to cope with harsh and unfair criticism.

Hewlett-Packard initially urged Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to manufacture computers, but announced the withdrawal from the hardware business. The company 's PC manufacturing business - the world' s largest after a complete merger with Compaq 10 years ago - may be sold and will cease manufacturing mobile devices including iPad 's rival TouchPad that has been on sale since July. It is almost no exaggeration that this is important for the PC market. HP is not just a maker. Together with Apple and Dell, it is one of the few computer brands that can claim to be household names. (Sony and Philips are known for other products, which are rarely known in the PC world.) That is not just a computer. Two PCs I bought last - Yes, okay, you can undo my follow - it is HP. Obviously I hate this software, but the hardware is neat and really good.

On September 3, 2001, HP announced that HP will merge with Compaq and HP officially merged with Compaq in May 2002. The merger began as Bill Hewlett objected to the merger. . Prior to the merger, Compaq acquired Tandems Computer and Digital Equipment, but in the market only Hp was the main player. Therefore, after HP merged, a new name HPQ (Hewlett-Packard and Compaq) was created. In 2004, HP announced the DV 1000 series and began his activity of "computer was personalized again" to emphasize the fact that PC is a personal product. On May 13, 2008, HP announced that he purchased the electronic data system (EDS), publicly announced that it changed EDS to Hewlett-Packard EDS brand on August 26, 2008. service