HP Names Meg Whitman President and Chief Executive Officer
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Re: HP Names Meg Whitman President and Chief Executive Officer
#2What I find funny about such rapid changes is, can they reverse any of his decisions? For instance, will HP magically announce they're not really leaving the PC business and will be shipping new tablets?
Re: HP Names Meg Whitman President and Chief Executive Officer
#3So, this board has recently brought in a software guy who doesn't seem a good fit for a company that does a lot of hardware, had him make a bunch of unpopular decisions, then quickly replaced him with somebody that's been on the board for quite some time, without reversing any of the previous "damage" that Apotheker is being blamed for.
Apotheker appears to be the fall guy for some unpopular decisions that the board wanted made anyway.
Re: HP Names Meg Whitman President and Chief Executive Officer
#4Ah, been a while since we had such an entertaining high profile trainwreck in progress to watch. What the hell is the board thinking?
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#5Time to accept bets on what the next screw-up will be.
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#6What I find funny about such rapid changes is, can they reverse any of his decisions? For instance, will HP magically announce they're not really leaving the PC business and will be shipping new tablets?
I wonder if it's also not too late to reverse the Autonomy acquisition.
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#7Time to accept bets on what the next screw-up will be.
As much as I love webOS... they'll resurrect it and release another set of sub-par phones & tablets and can it again.
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#8HP is as good as dead. It will take a long time to die but they're now officially the Yahoo! of hardware. Brand damage this severe is going to be very very hard to fix.
Re: HP Names Meg Whitman President and Chief Executive Officer
#9I mistakely read that as "Meg Ryan" (yes I am slightly dislexic). She'd probably do a better job too!
Re: HP Names Meg Whitman President and Chief Executive Officer
#10Robert X Cringely quote† from 7 months back, posted earlier today by Gruber‡:
> Then there’s Meg Whitman, who expected at this point to have resigned from the HP board to spend all her time running California as governor. But that didn’t happen, so now what is she to do? [...] She’ll eventually get around to hip-checking Apotheker and taking his job.
† http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/why-leo-apotheker-will-be-fi...
‡ http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/09/22/cringely-apothek...