Fortune.com: "How Hewlett-Packard Wants to Reinvent Corporate Computing"

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Apparently David Kirkpatrick of Fortune.com "was eager to sit down Monday with Dick Lampman, director of HP Labs, to learn what exactly HP is inventing these days."

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,594835,00.html?cnn=yes

Sample quote:

"We've continued to add people, but in different areas," he says. "For us it's a one-to-one tradeoff. We have a budget—do we spend more of it managing our infrastructure or do we put people to work on new programs? That should generate new technologies, new businesses, new revenues, and new jobs.

"The same logic would apply if the jobs were moving to India. This is just what economists say they believe is likely as both offshoring and productivity gains replace jobs—companies intent on growing will use the freed-up resources to do new things, invent new products, and create jobs that didn't exist before."

So apparently what Mr. Lapman has "invented" is a scenario in which "offshoring and productivity gains" are NOT simply going back into the CEO and investors' pockets?

"Freed-up resources"...as explained by Kirkpatrick:

"In his own lab Lampman has installed what HP calls its "utility data centers" and that has allowed him to do dramatically more with fewer people, he claims. Here's where the connection to the whole outsourcing/offshoring controversy comes in. The new software allowed HP Labs to triple its number of servers without adding any new system engineers. On the one hand, that underscores how much automation and productivity improvements are the true culprits in the so-called "jobless recovery."