HP has suffered from the falling prices of notebooks and desktops, saw its quarterly revenue partly because of this decline. Also facing the manufacturer with declining server-, storage – and printerverkopen and leads the stop with WebOS to significant revenue decline.
The new HP ceo Meg Whitman stressed in the announcement of the quarterly results once again that HP and the Personal Systems Group will be better off together and that the decision to make the branch not to divest the right. The PSG business unit performed, however, moderate. Revenue came in at 10.1 billion dollars, 2 percent lower than last year. It was striking that the revenues from notebooks will more decreased than that of desktops, and that the number of deliveries however, increased by 2 percent. According to HP, the decline in revenue due to the decrease of the average price of systems. Workstations would still sell well, and to an increase in turnover in the double-digit lead.
A falling consumer demand for printers and the reduction of stocks at suppliers had been the cause of the falling printerverkopen; the deliveries decreased by 5 percent compared to last year. Also the Enterprise server, storage and networking division performed moderately. So, the Business Critical Systems division, a sales decline of 23 percent. A fall in sales of Itanium-based servers was responsible for this.
The stop the sale of WebOS hardware has a bite out of 788 million dollars from the revenue taken. Still, it is unclear what HP with WebOS has a plan. According to VentureBeat Intel and Qualcomm in the race for the Palm division to take over and is WebOS part of the deal. HP would, however, impose conditions that it is a cheap license to WebOS may take for use in printers.