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HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman To Step Down (reuters.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new dept.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Meg Whitman is stepping down as chief executive officer. Reuters reports: Whitman engineered the biggest breakup in corporate history during her 6 year tenure at the helm, creating HPE and PC-and-printer business HP Inc from parent Hewlett Packard Co in 2015. Whitman will be succeeded by the company's president, Antonio Neri, who takes over from Feb. 1. "Now is the right time for Antonio and a new generation of leaders to take the reins of HPE," Whitman said in a statement. Whitman, who will continue as a board member, had been steering the company towards areas such as networking, storage and technology services.

3 of 101 comments (clear)

  1. Time to cash out by Neo-Rio-101 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All you did Meg was fire a lot of people under the pretense of splitting up a company.
    And you got paid a lot of money for it while a lot of people hit the skids.
    Well F**king done.

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  2. Re:Who would be your "dream CEO" for HP? by Strider- · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unfortunately the real geniuses at HP left when they spun off Agilent... Test & Measurement was really the heart and soul of the company, and the real brains behind the operation.

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  3. Re:Who would be your "dream CEO" for HP? by Strider- · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Low grade desktop and laptop vendor. Decent servers.

    The ProLiant division lives with HPE... They're dead to me now that they started requiring you to have a support contract in order to get firmware updates. Otherwise, it's still solid, well built gear. Next time 'round I'll probably look at Dell or Lenovo.

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