"We're trying to move everything we can offshore, " HP Services chief Ann Livermore told Wall Street analysts at a meeting Wednesday.
"These are two of the largest deals that will be contracted in 2003, " says Ann Livermore , executive vice president of HP services.
According to Jurgen Rottler , vice president of marketing, strategy and alliances at HP Services, HP will grow in India, building on the "several thousand" services people the company already employs there.
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Recent departures include Thomas Hogan, executive vice president of enterprise sales, marketing and strategy, and Gary Budzinski, senior vice president of HP Technology Services.
He was notably less willing than she to compare HP to either IBM, with which HP competes in services and servers, and Dell, HP's rival in personal computers.
He was notably less willing than she to compare HP to either IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ), with which HP competes in services and servers, and Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ), HP's rival in personal computers.
The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services.
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Carly Fiorina, Hurd's predecessor, made building up HP's services arm a priority.
HP's services division deploys 69, 000 consultants and programmers worldwide.
With respect to the company's divisions, personal systems, printing, enterprise, services and software have each taken a hit from the previous year, with HP's financial services segment being the only unit to show growth (despite the fact that financing volume is also down).
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While the EDS acquisition cemented HP's spot in the top tier of information technology services firms, trailing only IBM, analysts had anticipated big cuts as HP integrated EDS' offerings with its own services arm.
There are still notable gaps--software and consulting--but Compaq brought storage and services to HP.
Some of the services are HP Cloud Compute, HP Cloud Object Storage and HP Cloud CDN.
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Jeff Wacker, an HP fellow who led the project on behalf of HP's enterprise services division, described the project as a "multi-year, multi-phase" engagement.
We he made his first public statements last March Apotheker said he intended to make HP a cloud-based services company, with a strong base of analytic software.
"Siilasmaa is clearly a visionary, " says Louis Judice, a regional manager for HP's Mobile E-Services Bazaar, of which F-Secure is a member.
And I would presume that the old EDS business is the arm of HP that has been providing IT services to GM.
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Institutional Shareholder Services also is recommending HP shareholders vote against the re-election of Marc Andreessen, a venture capitalist best known as the co-founder of Web browser pioneer Netscape Communications.
"Customers whose companies have branch offices in Bangladesh, and run all different platforms and all different OSs, those customers will look to IBM, HP, and Compaq to provide comprehensive services, " said Paul McNamara, general manager of the business enterprise unit at Red Hat.
The acquisition was not so much for Compaq's PC business-- Dell Computer 's (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) relentless cost-cutting model has taken out most of its competitors' profits there--but in the hope of building a consulting business, particularly in managed services, that could complement HP's highly profitable printing business.
Fiorina said HP's strategy revolves around delivering the services over the Internet to the broad range of Internet devices on the market.
Such considerations make a strong services business a neat fit for HP.
He assures them that e-speak opens doors for HP because its customers are heading into e-services.
But Dell aims to bring his hyperefficient approach to managed services, too, effectively benchmarking both HP and IBM.
He also recruited Steve Shuckenbrock from EDS to drive Dell into the services business in competition with IBM and HP.
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"He is a different CEO for a different time, " says Ann Livermore, the 25-year HP veteran who runs the servers, software and services division.
So while the closed data servers represent lost revenues on one hand, HP stands the most to gain from new cloud services on the other.
With the social enterprise mPedigree Network, HP leveraged its technology expertise in cloud-based services to design and build an anti-drug counterfeiting service in Africa.
IBM, HP and Oracle all promise comprehensive, enterprise-wide services for the giant data centers of the world's biggest multinationals.
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