Comments on: HP CEO Whitman lands in Australia

By: Sg

Sg — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 02:21:00 +0000

Internal mail – Day A : Cutting ‘x amount’ of staff, sending jobs to best shore #1 (crap)

oh we want to save more money, want to be more greedy as we have to pay for top management’s bonus, what do we do ???

Internal mail – Day B : Cutting ‘y amount’ of staff, sending jobs to best shore #2 (crap)

……………. ????

Oh no, this chaos, 10,000 PC’s wiped off !!! Now we have to pay money back to client :-(

+ no direction ……………. HP = sinking boat

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 06:47:53 +0000

I would say you hit the nail on the head: Understaffed, overworked and lower skilled people

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:31:08 +0000

I wonder if this happened because of carelessness or as a consequence of the way that HP continually retrenches staff to cut costs so the people that are left behind are often over-worked and lacking key skills and corporate knowledge.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 04:37:50 +0000

Customer (CBA) can provide 12 months notice to pull the contract re-sign last year/this year was very much sided towards CBA.

I’d be surpised if they didn’t pull yes they may have some great people in HP but it’s went from a providing services company (whilst making money) to a pure lets make even more by cutting people and doing as little as possible.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 03:08:16 +0000

I heard it wasnt 450 windows servers affected but closer to 10,000+ ontop of the 9000 PC’s affected

By: Anonymouse

Anonymouse — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 06:16:01 +0000

Forgot to add:

The term of the contract is five years, with six possible one year extensions (that is, the maximum contract term is 11 years).

So this means they have HP until 2015 plus extensions.

By: Anonymouse

Anonymouse — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 06:14:15 +0000

Erm, HP won most of the contract. CSG was eliminated. HP handles data centre, servers and secure gateway.

http://www.ato.gov.au/super/content.aspx?menuid=39509&doc=/content/00278254.htm&page=1

“HPES was selected as the preferred provider.
The CC contract was signed on 17 December 2010. For the purposes of contract management efficiencies, we elected to combine the final year of the existing HPES contract with the new CC contract.

This bundle includes the provision, management and support services for:
the mainframe environment
the mid-range environment
the data warehouse environment
the storage environment
the secure gateway.”

By: Adam Nelson

Adam Nelson — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:43:15 +0000

Thats true. However I feel the corporate feeling inside HP it doesn’t want to be an outsourced provider IT no more because the company has lost direction and became too big

Look to last year when the ATO contract went to CSG. Yes HP could of been more competitive offer but didn’t

By: mary

mary — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 06:22:46 +0000

I know by personal experiences you have agreat team in adelaide who are working around the clock to make this right they deserve recognition for help correcting this situation