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To be completely safe from fiduciary trust attacks HPE need to show not that Autonomy & KPMG were asked for relevant numbers and they didnt provide / said they couldnt in the timescale
but something rather stronger
They need to show $other_party lied to HPE.
I think this is the core driver for the case here. We thought this court case was expensive - wait for the US shareholder suits.
Not looking too good for HPE right now.
Something called ZANTAZ - an HP Autonomy offering - was inflicted on us a few years ago with $previous_employer
"ZANTAZ Enterprise Archive Solution (EAS) is a highly scalable and flexible archiving platform that enables your organization to capture and preserve email messages, attachments, and files in a way that both optimizes storage and allows immediate access for discovery and review by courts, regulators, administrators, and end-users. Powered by IDOL, EAS automates the processing of enormous volumes of information, dynamically exposing the patterns, linkages and meaning within."
The effect - typically speaking - was that when outlook was not frozen, it ran like a dog. It forcibly archived anything over a couple of months old and the attachments often got lost.
When you tried to restore, it seems the special references often went missing
When they stopped using it, _all_that_data_was_gone_
Fortunately I worked out how to switch it off v. quickly.
With the benefit of hindsight, why there was an exe on my laptop at all completely escapes me.
...HP had a section or subsidiary that specialised in analysis of large scale unstructured big data.
If they had that they could really clean up
They say that you had buyer's remorse and Hewlett-Packard, in the light of that remorse, scratched around for reasons to justify its rather immediate writing-off of a large part of the purchase price. That's what they say. You say they're wrong about that and they say they're right about that.
To which I would add:- No-one forced HP to vastly over-pay for Autonomy, from an earlier post
Courtesy FT Alphaville 11/09/19:
We’ll leave you with this, a quote from Sun Microsystem’s founder Scott McNealy. Having watched the stock of his company appreciate nearly 14-fold during the dotcom bubble, and then collapse 95% during the bust, McNealy was bemused that investors ever considered paying what now looks like a rather diminutive 10 times sales for the computer hardware company’s stock at its peak in 2000.
Why? This is what he told Businessweek in 2002:
(https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2002-03-31/a-talk-with-scott-mcnealy)
At 10 times revenues, to give you a 10-year payback, I have to pay you 100% of revenues for 10 straight years in dividends. That assumes I can get that by my shareholders. That assumes I have zero cost of goods sold, which is very hard for a computer company. That assumes zero expenses, which is really hard with 39,000 employees. That assumes I pay no taxes, which is very hard. And that assumes you pay no taxes on your dividends, which is kind of illegal. And that assumes with zero R&D for the next 10 years, I can maintain the current revenue run rate. Now, having done that, would any of you like to buy my stock at $64? Do you realise how ridiculous those basic assumptions are? You don’t need any transparency. You don’t need any footnotes. What were you thinking?
10 times sales…
… that made me think
Autonomy was sold for $12bn 18/8/11 and revenue to the end of the last FY – 31/12/10 was $870m
That is a ratio of *13.8* times revenue.
And I expect this lawsuit to be a massive waste of money too.
Two minicab firms.
One has a brand new fleet all of the same type - and they are maintained by the main dealer.
The other has a fleet fill of the sort of cars that should have been 'retired' 5 years ago, and yes, sometimes some cars break down and they are then fixed - not always perfectly, admittedly.
Fast forward 10 years
One of those minicab firms will know what to do should a key supplier fails.
Quite correct.
Comparing phones to fashion brands is a valid thing to do.
Consider Lacoste or French connection or any number of brands that became popular through clever marketing, overexpanded - over diluting their (upmarket) identity, or just fell of the wave they rode.
Apple has the store that reduces the defection rate, but, that wont help.
However I do not see teenagers choosing Android because their parents have iphones.
So this might be just a blip.
Perhaps is is more proportional to the number of people visiting the other country.
Looking around, in 2018
3.8m visitors - tourists - from USA to UK
3.47m visitors - tourists - from UK to USA
so, all things being equal I would expect roughly equal numbers of extradition requests.
Some people in Guantanamo bay for example might say the US does not have an embarrassment nerve(*)
(*)if there is such a thing
If the store took no reasonable, proportionate action to secure the knife and had foreknowledge of the likely consequences(*), well, yes.
(*)
what is reasonable and proportionate is the question.
If the knife was in a locked cabinet (as it is for the better knives in Lakeland) that is one thing
If the knife was on a table outside the door with a label 'please stab someone', that is another.
Clearly our self driving algorithm needs a tweak. The car stopped after striking the pedestrian.
In future Uber will strive to provide the best possible service to it's customers.
Any journey delay is of course completely unacceptable and we apologize for that unreservedly
Look out for our new upcoming sharing service for the time - pressured:
SideWalkShare (tm) where Uber and legacy pedestrains have the opportunity to share the pavement.
I spend nearly 10h a week on 'Teams'
In every meeting there will be someone ...
'on mute' = doing something else and not listening, eating or shuffling paper or (more rarely) going to the toilet, or cracking up due to latency issues
and at the end, the project manager will be none the wiser.
It is not always v. green and takes more time due to travel, but I far prefer it when I can see people rolling their eyes and sniggering.
Not a criticism of 'teams', just that it is better called Solipsism
Yes, they are ... different (better - that is a big stretch).
For that library that does foo, in 12m time you can reasonably expect it to still do foo, otherwise you would not have an external dependancy.
It is cultural (in programming) that if you change something - like adding a warplane option that breaks earlier versions, the old version is still there somewhere.
This is not the case with a document.
This document may be deleted or moved or updated, it may have been the lyrics of 'everlong' last year but this year it is 'times like these' and that might or might not be right for you.
If two people link to that one document it will probably be wrong for one of them.
Indeed two people will probably be fighting over foo.
To make this work you will need to do what uber wants to force american pedestrians to do - only cross at crossings and look both ways (and at all the possible points of impact) or get run over.
whereas programmers will seek foo - the fruits of a good icon - in the obvs place
All this is stuff sounds great but...
Think about it: OLE - or embedding bits of one document in another - is the illegitimate child of GOTO and(!) COMEFROM.
We have moved beyond those things in programming, time to do so in terms of documents
I have seen what I think they are aiming for - sort of like a dynamic dashboard or a nagios screen.
Those things run off structured data or a warehouse where the structure and location of data _does not change_.
Documents do change and are moved.
I think you left out a few bits about him and his character
Getting fired for lying at least twice
Conspired - unsuccessfully - to have a journalist beaten up
(https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/14/black-eyes-boris-johnson-plot-attack-reporter-darius-guppy)
and no-one is sure how many children he has
(Personally speaking, I cannot vote Con whilst it hosts people like him, in the interests of balance cannot stand Corbyn either - so that leaves me the lib dems, thus the icon that solves all problems.
I am sure someone will now tell me about them now)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Coase
One of the greatest economists a non economics person has never heard of.
Back in *1937* he wrote "The Nature of the Firm" and that essay was one of the first works on why companies exist rather that groups of independant traders and why they only get so big.
It looks like that some time ago govt got just too big and complex to be efficient.
Outsourcing probably does not fix that.
Devolving control to smaller independent entities _might_
If you want no red tape, you need to fill in the correct form on the govt website as it is now blue tape.
Supplies of blue tape may be rationed in the short term and you need to apply to the local planning office which is in the locked basement of your local library which may or may not be open when you visit it.
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/government-outsourcing-reform
Expecting to see some garbage from some alt-left|right wonktank, I was rather taken aback on reading the abstract.
This is not quite what I gathered from your article. This is most of the summary of the summary and there is very little there for me to ridicule.
...
It finds that outsourcing waste collection, cleaning, catering and maintenance services has delivered significant savings and benefits to citizens. Particularly in these areas, bringing services entirely back into government hands could lead to worse and more expensive services for the public.
The report also shows that consecutive governments have overstated the benefits of outsourcing. Senior politicians regularly claim outsourcing can still deliver 20–30% savings but there is no evidence to support this.
It highlights a series of high-profile contract failures – including security at the Olympics, welfare assessments, offender tagging and probation. These contracts have wasted millions of pounds, delivered poor services and undermined public trust. The outsourcing of probation failed on every measure, harming ex-offenders trying to rebuild their lives.
Consecutive governments have outsourced services with no market of good suppliers or in pursuit of unrealistic cost savings – and without a reasonable expectation that companies could deliver efficiencies or improve the quality of services.
The report recommends that the current government must strengthen its commercial skills and capabilities, makes ministers and officials more accountable to the public and improve the evidence base that informs outsourcing decisions.
Don't be mean about trump.
With just a sharpie and a piece of paper he can change the course of hurricanes.
Like McGyver but better.
Only a small step from that to the 7th planet in this solar system and then onwards to infinity and beyond at the centre of the galaxy.
Courtesy FT Alphaville 11/09/19:
We’ll leave you with this, a quote from Sun Microsystem’s founder Scott McNealy. Having watched the stock of his company appreciate nearly 14-fold during the dotcom bubble, and then collapse 95% during the bust, McNealy was bemused that investors ever considered paying what now looks like a rather diminutive 10 times sales for the computer hardware company’s stock at its peak in 2000.
Why? This is what he told Businessweek in 2002:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2002-03-31/a-talk-with-scott-mcnealy
At 10 times revenues, to give you a 10-year payback, I have to pay you 100% of revenues for 10 straight years in dividends. That assumes I can get that by my shareholders. That assumes I have zero cost of goods sold, which is very hard for a computer company. That assumes zero expenses, which is really hard with 39,000 employees. That assumes I pay no taxes, which is very hard. And that assumes you pay no taxes on your dividends, which is kind of illegal. And that assumes with zero R&D for the next 10 years, I can maintain the current revenue run rate. Now, having done that, would any of you like to buy my stock at $64? Do you realise how ridiculous those basic assumptions are? You don’t need any transparency. You don’t need any footnotes. What were you thinking?
10 times sales…
… that made me think
Autonomy was sold for $12bn 18/8/11 and revenue to the end of the last FY – 31/12/10 was $870m
That is a ratio of 13.8 times revenue.
There are 110 houses in my road. Some of those houses are flats - another 60 or so.
6 houses and ~20 flats could charge EVs.
the other 144 households have no chance.
I think the real answer is electric busses - a proper bus network, not one every tuesday - more car rentals - and less car ownership.
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