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Some Terminated HP Employees Offered Jobs at Ciber

Data Center Knowledge

HP’s current effort to breathe life into its Enterprise Systems (ES) business has already. Employees hate to hear the dreaded “restructure” word coming from a CEO because it’s almost always synonymous with layoffs. By now, those at Hewlett-Packard must really despise it.

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Microsoft acquires Seattle startup Suplari, which uses AI to analyze corporate spending

GeekWire

Founded in 2016, Suplari analyzes procurement and spending data flowing into various enterprise systems. Gerber is a long-time engineering leader who co-founded startups including iConclude (acquired by Opsware and later by HP) and helped lead Apptio’s machine learning and intelligent app development.

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When did mass layoffs become so normal?

Vox

And then on top of that, you have a new kind of belief system about capitalism in the context of the Cold War. We want to say, look, the free enterprise system is better than the communists. We have labor peace, we have the Treaty of Detroit. General Motors doesn’t care — it’s making money hand over fist.