HP is in the world is #1 in sales of x86 servers…and also # 1 on printers.
IBM is leader in mainframes or Power systems.
What is HP is doing is moving to the service business as IBM did more than 10 year ago. What is happening right know is IBM did outsource all the resources and is starting to struggle with the quality of the service… the same will happen to HP if they keep the same idea.