Continuing the task of assimilating its Apollo Computer Inc acquisition, Hewlett-Packard Co has collapsed four of its divisions into two new structures, the Networked Systems Group and Cooperative Computing Group. The move is seen as a trickle-down from the October re-shuffle which saw the workstation and personal computer groups merged into one with the creation of a Computer Systems Organisation. William Kay, general manager of the workstation group, engineer of the Apollo acquisition and one of the chief architects of the formation of the Open Software Foundation, was moved out of his post in this latest shake-up, although no jobs are said to have been lost. Hewlett says the move will help it better implement its NewWave Computing strategy. Headed by Willem Roelandts, the Networked Systems Group will have responsibility for development and marketing of workstations, multi-user systems and servers, the Precision Architecture RISC chip, networking, operating systems, languages and databases. The Co-operative Computing Group is in charge of developing and marketing distributed computing environments, applications, user interfaces, and office and personal computer network products. It is led by Robert Frankenberg. Hewlett-Packard says it will also be committing extra resources to the telecommunications market.
