Links for Thursday August 25^th, 2011

• HP’s decade-long departure: I love this quote from Horace Dediu:

  "Consider how HP and Apple faced the changes in the PC market almost exactly a decade ago.

  • On September 3, 2001, HP announced that they would acquire Compaq.
  • On October 23, 2001, Apple announced the iPod.

  The rest, as they say, is history."

  That is disruptive innovation, in a nutshell.

• Palm post mortem: what could have been: Interesting analysis of the Palm/HP thing, with a fair amount of insider info.

• 70 Years is Enterprise Services: Jesper delivers a wonderful eulogy for the HP that we have known.