After buying Plano-based Electronic Data Systems last year, Hewlett-Packard cut the EDS work force, slashed its employees’ salaries, and stuffed its top execs into tiny cubicles. Now the California company is delivering the coup de grace: getting rid of the EDS name. For sprout-eaters, those Golden Staters sure play rough.
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so what is left of the once huge Perot empire? Alliance? kinda sad…
Psst. Glenn! Do your homework. HP’s CEO Mark Hurd, the driving force of HP’s cost cutting and the EDS merger, was born in NYC, educated at Baylor, and his first job out of college was in Dallas. He lived here eight years. So much for sprout eating.
Everyone knew it was only a matter of time before the EDS name was no longer around.
Buh-bye Sterling Cooper, errrr. . . .
The ED, er HP Campus in Plano looks like a scene out of Red Dawn. About a dozen HP Flags at the main entrance, HP Enterprise Services banners at every turn. Humiliation may not be the right word, but it’s not far off.
to be honest, EDS stopped being EDS about 10 years ago. This just puts the brand to rest, and we can think of EDS as the way it was in it’s heyday….as a company that often actually gave a damn about it’s employees.