Well done to Dell for making HP spend alot more for 3par than they should have.

This will probably go as well as EMC did for HP... hehehe

3par's shareholders are certainly the winners but the real losers in the deal are 3par's employees. HP is a horrible company to work and I am certain that they are about to find this out first hand. That is, the ones that they don't jettison in short order. 2.4 gigabucks is a big hit to balance so if HP operates like they usually do they'll get rid of a bunch of their current employees too. A few thousand employees here or there is nothing to HP. They'll probably buy some more jets too.