HP's Whitman To Partners: 'We've Got Our Swagger Back'
Hewlett Packard channel partners have been through a lot in the past year, but CEO Meg Whitman says she's going to make it up to them by steering HP back in a drama-free direction.
"I want to be a steady hand on the tiller for this company," Whitman said Wednesday in a keynote at HP's Global Partner Conference (GPC) in Las Vegas. "We're going to return to being the reliable, trusted partner you can count on to build your businesses."
Whitman said her first big decision as CEO , keeping HP's PC-making Personal Systems Group (PSG), helped her to understand the significance of hardware in HP's corporate identity. The PSG uncertainty was a major issue for the channel, but Whitman aims to remain focused on hardware even as HP looks to build its software business.
"Seventy percent of our revenue comes from hardware. It's the core of who we are," Whitman told attendees. "We should stand up and be proud to be a hardware and infrastructure company. We're not in the software business
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