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HP Buys Compaq
MaxVlast was the first to report: "The New York Times is reporting that HP is buying Compaq to form the second-largest computer company (after IBM). Wow."
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Hewlett Paqard?
...c'mon, _someone_ was gonna say it...
How will they combine PC color schemes? Rose! Pink! Disaster!
spacefem.com
If this goes through watch Dell brag about moving from the number 4 spot to the number 3 spot and give the people at the very top big bonuses.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
The woman is damned smart. Personally, I would have to rank her as the most intelligent, dedicated, and insightful executive in Silicon Valley. A merger of this size will take many long nights, over many years, to fully become a reality. And I think Carly Fiorina has the dedication, knowledge, and experience to do it.
Think about it. She did wonders at Lucent.
I think what is most important, what differentiates her from the other executives in the industry, is what she knows about this industry.
"Virtually all meaningful advancements in business, society, and life are not achieved through the boldy acts of a few, but the everyday acts of many."
Cut through the marketing fluff of that quote she made last year. And you see that she really does have a clue of what runs a company. What runs the whole industry. Truly, what has, and always will run this world.
Her degree is, if I remember correctly, not in information technology or business... But actually in medieval studies. What do we learn by studying history? The mistakes people have made, and hopefully we learn to not make them again.
She's a smart business person. She sees the mistakes Compaq has made with Digital and Tandem. She knows to not make those same mistakes again. And she knows that her job depends on not making any mistakes. The hp Board is patient, but they're not going to sit around for a decade, while she's pushing her sixties still trying to get hp back on track. Carly has a year at the most to prove that she can head this megaconglomerate. She knows how to streamline (see latest quarterly report).
If she can pull this off, I would have to credit her as the most successful executive in history. If not, she can move on over to Nevada and take up stripping.
Which do you think she's planning on, and working towards?
jrbd
my predictions for slashdot in 2010.