August 8, 2002 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Research organization the Yankee Group (YankeeGroup.com) released a new application infrastructure and software platforms report this week, titled “Assessing the HP/Compaq Merger: A Look at the New HP Enterprise Systems Group.”
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The report, says the Yankee Group, documents how the new Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Systems Group product lineup is changing following the company?s May merger with Compaq.
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According to the Yankee Group, the finalization of the merger on May 7 signaled the end of an era and the start of a new chapter in enterprise computing. The new combined server and storage product lines will give the company a boost in the competition against infrastructure providers like Sun Microsystems and IBM, and against storage solution providers like Dell and EMC.
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But the merger also raises questions about the fates of product lines, the merging of two separate company cultures and the need for HP to articulate a long-term vision of how the companies? products will fit together into one brand.
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“For enterprise customers, now is the time to assess the impact the merged company will have on IT strategies, especially on longer-term server and storage relationships that have been built up over the last decade,” says Jamie Gruener, senior analyst and author of the report.
