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HP CEO Carly Fiorina to Step Down

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the tidal-wave-of-submissions dept.

ewwhite was the first of a tidal wave of readers to submit links telling us that HP Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina will step down, effective immediately. Chief Financial Officer Robert Wayman will be interim CEO, Hewlett-Packard said in a Business Wire statement today. Patricia Dunn will be chairwoman. Not much else in the story.

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  1. more info by ack154 · · Score: 5, Informative
    From CBS Marketwatch:

    "While I regret the board and I have differences about how to execute HP's strategy, I respect their decision," Fiorina said in a statement.
  2. adios by Alien+Being · · Score: 5, Informative

    My work here is done.

  3. She was forced out by fishdan · · Score: 5, Informative
    According to the Business Standard she was forced out.
    "While I regret the board and I have differences about how to execute HP's strategy, I respect their decision," Fiorina said a statement. "HP is a great company, and I wish all the people of HP much success in the future."

    There have been other shakeups in personel at HP leading to speculation that there is something wrong. You have to wonder if all the animosity she accrued while making the HP/Compaq merger happen has finally been returned.

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  4. Re:NPR dancing a jig? by http101 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Honestly, having seen the inside operations of how HP is run, I can tell you, they're happy simply because Carly is gone. She's cut corners like you wouldn't believe. Did you know that their consumers have better computers than what's in their tech support centers in the Houston RDC?

    Carly has taken it on herself to ensure techs are NOT able to do their jobs by implementing stupid tools like "ATM" or the Automated Technology Manager to replace the MMC snap-ins for Active Directory. VPN support for employees is utilized only through a "signed" proprietary program which is a pain in the ass to support because it either breaks or totally f*cks up a person's NT account. Their financial center is run completely on VMS and locks out users repeatedly. As for pager/cellphone support, the company gives you one, but you have to pay for the services. If you don't want a pager or cell, they give you a Blackberry which is linked to their own Blackberry service towers running Blackberry Server v1.0 while the rest of the world has upgraded their software 10-fold. I only say this as an example of how she's neglected certain aspects of the company's functionality just to put a couple more nickels in her purse.

    I don't know about you, but when I get home, there's a beer with my name on it!

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  5. Re:That's too bad by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 5, Informative

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