The company had to cut its earnings after a court awarded extra payments in a lawsuit against EDS
Hewlett-Packard has been forced to reduce the amount of profit it reported last quarter to cover additional costs awarded against its EDS division in a lawsuit brought by British Sky Broadcasting in the U.K.
Union claims 2,500 threatened with compulsory redundancy
One thousand members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union will go on a 48-hour strike at HP on Monday after the company refused to extend its job security guarantee beyond October.
Vendor giant to rebrand its IT services business holistically
HP Wednesday announced it would leave the EDS brand behind and rename its IT services provider business HP Enterprise Services.
Perot will become Dell's global services unit
Dell has agreed to buy Perot Systems for around US$3.9 billion in cash, and intends to make the company its global services delivery division, the companies said Monday.
Acquisition of EDS helped vendor leap 6 places on the lucrative list
The acquisition of EDS has propelled HP to second place on IDC’s top 10 outsourcers list.
Sales of printers, PCs and servers all declined sharply, but HP's services business was a bright spot
Hewlett-Packard reported a 2 percent drop in revenue for the July quarter, which was better than expected, and said its business is stabilizing.
Government department aiming for virtualisation of datacentres
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has extended its contract with HP subsidiary, EDS, in a deal worth $604 million.
Vendor partnership to help organisations comply with Government regulatory requirements around carbon emission reporting
EDS and SAP have joined forces to bring an environmental compliance solution to high-end enterprises.
It's also cutting data center power use by painting server racks white
Just off the North Sea coast in the United Kingdom, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s EDS unit has built a data center that largely relies on cold sea air to keep servers chilled and -- by doing so -- cut the center's cooling power needs in half.
It's also cutting data center power use by painting server racks white
Just off the North Sea coast in the United Kingdom, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s
EDS unit has built a data center that largely relies on cold sea air to keep servers chilled and -- by doing so -- cut the center's cooling power needs in half.
There has been a flutter of activity across Federal and State Government agencies to shore up IT supplier contracts before the end of the financial year.
There has been a flutter of activity across Federal and
State Government agencies to shore up IT supplier
contracts before the end of the financial year.
Analyst says the contract is a good strategic move for the HP subsidiary in Federal Government
EDS has won a $96 million contract with the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) to provide managed IT services. The deal is the first to come out of Commander’s lucrative Group 8 agency arrangement with Federal Government.
Microsoft officially launched its hosted services in 18 countries and lined up new partners to help sell them
On Monday, Microsoft began offering its hosted services to companies in 18 countries outside of the U.S. and said that EDS would help sell the services.
HP reported a revenue gain of 1 percent for the quarter ending in January compared to the same period last year.
Despite declines nearly across the board, Hewlett-Packard just barely managed an increase in revenue for the first quarter of 2009, which ended Jan. 31, the company announced Wednesday.
A report by UK Parliament complains a consortium lead by EDS underestimated the complexity of the software they had to deliver for the multi-billion dollar defence project
A powerful group of MPs has accused the Ministry of Defence of failing to properly plan a £7.1 billion IT project, leading to cost overruns and severe delays.
