HP: Geared with the ultimate Horse Power.

Even though the global recession has affected many US companies and got down to the hell in the recent years, doesn't make any impact on Hewlett Packard (HP) believe so!!! What makes me say this is because of its acquisition among the graded organisations and the revenues which is told by its quarterly results. I can say HP(Horse Power!!!) has geared top in the IT race. Obviously last year's great acquisition was Mphasis' parent EDS. The annual revenue of Rs. 4,283.3 crore, shows the erstwhile mid-tier IT company is fast moving into the top league of IT exporters. Mphasis' stellar performance was largely a result of its association with Hewlett Packard (HP). And because of this, 2009 has been the year of resurrection for Mphasis. And its not ended up with this alone but acquired 3COM technologies last month as well as the Indian software division of AIGSS in August'09. The full impact of AIGSS' acquisition would be visible in the next quarter. Apart from having bought the organizations, HP has also bagged a lot of projects for it's various childhood concerns. It will not stop with this and hope will get more and more in near future I guess and now it stands sixth in the IT pecking order. Its damn sure that any concern which comes under HP, will boom like anything including the stocks like Mphasis, provides a healthy competition among the software giants.

IT leaders trust Microsoft than Google

In the fast growing software market Google is becoming the major threat for Microsoft as it’s expands its boundaries beyond search engine now it’s also stepping into business application which is the strong hold of Microsoft till now. But when it comes to trust most of the Chief Information Officers are with Microsoft. In a recent survey conducted by a leading organization polled a 90-member panel of U.S. IT executives and asked "Who do they trust more as a technology partner, Microsoft or Google?" in the first 12 respondents 8:4 votes for Microsoft. Even though Google provides its service with less expense, speed up deployments, and provide users with a simpler experience. But apart from all these things Google has to convince the IT leaders to transfer their company datas from the internal servers to Google’s data centre with all the privacy, security, and compliance risks that such a move entails, reports TechRepublic.

Mr. Donna Trivison, Director of IT for Ursuline College, commented on this trend that, "There seems to be some conventional wisdom that Google is the answer to what's been wrong over the years in the Microsoft universe. That kind of thinking may be dangerous. As consumers of technology, we need to keep each and every business partner honest and working for us. Handing trust carte blanche over to Google because, as the wisdom goes, they are good citizens seems misguided to me. If I had to pick one, it would probably be Microsoft because they have withstood the scrutiny their misdeeds have landed them. Google remains, for the most part, untested."

Lance Taylor Warren, CIO of H.A.W.C. Community Health Centers, also added that, "Neither. While some of the technology that Google has been releasing is intriguing, their track record of leaving things in 'beta' for years does not lead to a high level of confidence. Microsoft is Microsoft. If I had to pay full price for their products, I would have to give serious consideration to other solutions." So this confrontation will come to an end soon but who is going to win the trust of IT people. Let’s wait & watch.