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Why HP Should Sell Its PC Business To Save It

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the anywhere-but-here dept.

packetrat writes "Hewlett Packard may not be in danger as a company, but its future in the PC business is in doubt, thanks to former CEO Leo Apotheker's maneuvers to turn HP into IBM. This article at Ars says Meg Whitman should go ahead and sell off the PC business — mostly because HP's management is so inept, it would likely do better without them. Agilent seems to be doing okay since it was spun off in 1999, but HP may have spun off its soul in the process."

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  1. HP Didn't Spin Off Its Soul by 14erCleaner · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's soul was eaten by Carly.

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    1. Re:HP Didn't Spin Off Its Soul by inviolet · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's soul was eaten by Carly.

      Some will consider you flippant or flamebait, but I think you've spoke more truth than you'll get credit for. The leader's personality percolates and pervades through an organization, driving out (directly and indirectly) those not orthogonal to it. HP had a different personality after her tenure than it did before.

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