September 5th, 2005
Hurd, Gerstner, HP and NCR
Redmonk James Governor suggests that new HP CEO Mark Hurd is using former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner’s playbook–no glitz, glamor, trendiness, dissembling or philosophizing, just execute. James also floats a rumor: HP would acquire NCR (Hurd’s former company) to bring Teradata and its enterprise analytical capabilities into the fold, as well as bustling point-of-sale and ATM equipment businesses. A good compliment to the HP NonStop (formerly Compaq/Tandem) business. I’ve heard stranger combinations, but I wouldn’t expect Hurd and the HP board to jump on any major deals without further cleaning up its own house first…
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