Cloud Computing: Meg Whitman Will Leave HP and 4 Other Predictions For 2016

December 30, 2015 Off By David
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Grazed from Fortune. Author: Barb Darrow.

2015 was a blockbuster year in which one tech icon, Hewlett Packard, split itself in half and two others, EMC and Dell attempted to navigate a more-complicated-by-the-minute plan to combine themselves into one. That dichotomy illustrates two world views roiling the tech landscape. HP’s journey exemplified the notion that it’s better to be smaller but more focused on key markets rather than trying to cover the universe.

The Dell worldview, on the other hand, is that bigger is just plain better. Michael Dell is from Texas, after all. With that in mind, here are five totally personal, non-scientific predictions about what will happen in tech in 2016.

1: Meg Whitman will declare victory and exit HP

Count on this one. Whitman, the CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE 1.05% and Chairman of HP Inc. HPQ 0.42% , will initiate a search for a replacement (if she hasn’t already), find one, and take a victory lap before departing…

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