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It made strategic sense if they were hoping to make a couple billion dollars on their investment.
That's not strategy. That's a get-rich-quick scheme.
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The board wouldn't have hired Apotheker in the first place if they didn't approve of the direction he was going to take HP. I would guess that his firing, is due more to the way he went about it [1] and his overpaying for Autonomy. [1] That is: going public with the general plan too far in advance of having the details ironed out. Which arguably did real damage to the hardware division's sales and the process of tryi…
Do you seriously think that the Autonomy purchase was made autonomously from board approval? (no pun intended)
When the wheels come off a cart as big as HP, it's pretty awe-inspiring. I wonder who's next? Certainly Dell isn't going to get anywhere becoming a "services" company. Too, how many "services" companies does the world really need? Rhetorical question, I suppose.
I suspect it's directly correlated with the number of golf courses.