Uncensored2008
Libertarian Radical
I guess I work in serious IT companies.
Infosys?
TCS?
You? I dunno.
I work for an Aerospace company as the IT Director. But in this thread, you're 99% hack, 1% tech.
Like most people in the day, I got most of my information mostly from Ziff Davis, and agreed with Machrone et al. that taking on Compaq was stupid. But that was in procress before Fiorina came on board, so you're just being a partisan hack. Compaq was a premium brand in an era of budget machines, where the PC was transforming to a commodity and there was no room for a high priced entry. I didn't care that a Compaq would last 10 years, it was obsolete in 3. So all your bullshit is just that, as you well know.
Fiorina pushed HP toward blade architecture and network backbone, both critical moves that eventually led to a more profitable company. Stocks fell and the board fired her, that's the way it goes.