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HPE tried to make the best of a rough quarter and year as the enterprise IT giant turned in lackluster numbers for fiscal 2019. On Monday, executives blamed a slowing worldwide market for hardware and ongoing trade wars for the nearly 10 per cent slump in sales revenues over the last three months, but remained optimistic for …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Not looking good

    Revenue and income down, EPS up, and Carl Icahn circling?

    Sell now!

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    1. Sandtitz Silver badge
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      Facepalm

      Re: Not looking good

      "Carl Icahn circling?"

      Icahn is circiling HP & Xerox. This article is about HPE.

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Not looking good

      Icahn's in HP Ink to the tune of US$1bn and wants to push the merger with Xerox - I'm not aware of any significant involvement in HPE.

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  2. Doctor Syntax Silver badge

    Bingo

    "I am confident in our ability to drive sustainable, profitable growth as we continue to shift our portfolio to higher-value, software-defined solutions and execute our pivot to offering everything as a service by 2022, Our strategy to deliver an edge-to-cloud platform-as-a -service is unmatched in the industry."

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    1. confused and dazed
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      FAIL

      Re: Bingo

      nope - I didn't see blockchain or autonomous

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      1. TheDrunkenBakers
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        Re: Bingo

        Nope, no machine learning or AI too. Very poor.

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  3. Imhotep

    Thinking Like An MBA

    Guess the next announcement is more layoffs?

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