Yes, DPWN certainly had to act. An impressive courier firm brought down by a clueless IT management. Whether HP can do any better remains to be seen - the babble of their VP doesn't augur well.

As a former HP (OMS) worker, I was quite puzzle to read this announcement.

I heard that the Deutsche people are quite organized and quite efficient, and as much as I know HP Outsource hand, they are .. quite the opposite..

€1bn saving over the next 7 years? HA HA! HP sold this turkey to quite few companies here in the Middle east. Guess what? You'll pay MUCH more then you thought to and the savings will be minimal. I know because I'm in this field over 5 years..

Poor Deutsche POST

Kelly,

It would be really interesting to know who else was bidding on this deal and if EDS was in the mix. And it would be interesting to know if/how HP plans to leverage their new Opsware technology to deliver the services. As you prob. know, EDS was Opsware's first big customer and they actually bought the ASP part of Loudcloud from Andreessen so that he could do Opsware. Talk about biting the hand that feeds IT!!

Germany has just outsourced its intelligence-gathering-from-skype solution aswell.

It makes sense to outsource their snailmail solutions to a company that has some documented experience in the intelligence-gathering business

I don't really see the problem. I'm not German.

//Svein

Look out the good ship itanic is taking some more unwilling users on board.

Just goes to show that UPS and FedEx are king as DHL exits the ground biz in the states.