New tech news for the new stadium

[longtimespur]

Interesting confirmation of IT partners

Read the full article at THFC official site

 

[longtimespur]

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/football-fan-tastic-meg-whitman

from the above article.

 

[Gaz_Gammon]

Sincerely hope that when installed their system boots up quicker than the piece of shit HP desktop i brought last year.....

Oh, and fuck using Windows 95...........and don't even get me started about my floppy drive.

 

[longtimespur]

Sincerely hope that when installed their system boots up quicker than the piece of shit HP desktop i brought last year.....

Oh, and fuck using Windows 95...........and don't even get me started about my floppy drive.

The last bit in embolden is definitely to do with age

 

[leffe186]

Genuine question for those in the know - is this a good choice?

 

[guiltyparty]

Hewlett Packard has been in a downward spiral for years. They separated into two companies a couple of years ago, moving out of the consumer business and focusing mainly on enterprise.

We clearly have a long standing relationship with someone involved with them, but their buyout of Autonomy (another of our sponsors) got them into all kinds of shit for accounting fraud and such. They had to pay out $100m to shareholders due to financial irregularities with the buyout.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise to my knowledge tho has nothing to do with the old Hewlett Packard any more, so very hard to know if it's a good thing. The old business is now called HP Inc and trades under that.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise was founded two years ago, and has a pretty mediocre stock performance. I imagine our history with them has led to a decent financial deal, not them being super hot, but could be wrong

 

[onthetwo]

The solution chosen comes from Aruba Networks, a WLAN company on the West Coast that HP bought a few years back ( i used to visit them in a work capacity and got to know some of the management team). Their solution tended to lead the US market for schools and tertiary education campuses and had a few years where they presented a bit of a headache for the bigger boys (Cisco most noteably). So the technology is decent and providing DL has the money left after the full build it should make the browsing experience in the stadium far better than its been over the years. Given what ive read about plans for esports events at the new stadium id have to think that they realise how important this will be so it should be pretty shit hot.

 

[widmerpool]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an entirely new business founded two years ago, and has a pretty mediocre stock performance. I would imagine the decision has been made for money, not for great technical reasons.

It's not quite a wholly new business. It's the old IT services component of HP, a large part of which is what used to be EDS, which won lots of Whitehall business in the early 2000s.

Famous for large deals which industrialised applications, desktop and hosting over several years, and challenged by an environment where CIOs want a flexible apps environment, and cloud vendors offer cheaper routes to piecemeal industrialisation of infrastructure. Fundamentally, an IT services shop which can't survive on bodyshopping alone, in an era when they need to.

 

[Lilbaz]

Hewlett Packard has been in a downward spiral for years. They separated into two companies a couple of years ago, moving out of the consumer business and focusing mainly on enterprise.

We clearly have a long standing relationship with someone involved with them, but their buyout of Autonomy (another of our sponsors) got them into all kinds of shit for accounting fraud and such. They had to pay out $100m to shareholders due to financial irregularities with the buyout.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise to my knowledge tho has nothing to do with the old Hewlett Packard, so very hard to know if it's a good thing. The old business is now called HP Inc and trades under that.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an entirely new business founded two years ago, and has a pretty mediocre stock performance. I would imagine the decision has been made for money, not for great technical reasons.

Enic owned shares in autonomy i believe.

 

[Lilbaz]

Seems at one point enic owned 25% of autonomy but sold a large chunk to buy shares in spurs.
They owned 2.5% in 2003 (how much their stake was when hp tookover i can't find).