SOA filling the Gaps

My Vendors Survival posts series included posts on Google , EMC , Facebook , Apple , Sun Micro Systems , Microsoft , Software AG . and other companies.  Two posts were written about HP. The first post written in 2008, was titled: Vendors Survival: Will HP Survive until 2018? - HP's EDS acquisition First Take . EDS was acquired by HP in order to become one of the two largest IT Services companies.   My prediction was not optimistic: "Sorry, but the optimistic view seems to me less realistic than other scenarios". After years of large layoffs, including many EDS's previously employed, no one could argue that I was wrong.  The second post revisited my predictions on 2012. It was titled: Vendors Survival: Will HP Survive Until 2018? - Revisited . It was mainly about large layoffs as indicator of failure.  Since October, 2014 the question I asked is irrelevant.  Now we should ask: Which HP, if any, will Survive Until 2025?  HP was splitted to two c...