The shortage of hard drives pushes Facebook, Google in the arms of HP

Un serveur HP Proliant.

HP presented its financial results for the quarter elapsed (August, September, October). They show a shortness of the giant: the period of 2010, net sales down 3%, the gross margin of 7.4 points and the net profit of 91%. However, this dramatic fall of the benefit is to the assets of the judgment of webOS devices, which cost the firm 2.1 billion.

However, Meg Whitman, the recent HP CEO is fairly optimistic for the end of the year. His company was indeed the fastest to react to the Thai floods that result in a hard drives acute shortage. HP has immediately set up a crisis cell, made stocks and past commands at the beginning of October. Thus, Whitman think that HP will receive a greater portion of the remaining production than its competitors. To emphasize its advantage, Whitman has had this vindictive comment "we hear all the time that people contruisent their own servers [...]". but for the moment, they do not build their own servers because they can not have hard drives. Then they call us... Yes, the Google, the Facebook call us. »

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