my mental meanderings...

Carly's out...finally!

Ok, so it probably shouldn't surprise those of you who have been following the HP/Compaq saga since it began so many years ago. I figured it was coming sooner or later, I just didn't expect it to come this soon. But I guess this is a good thing for HP since their stock price went up today on the news.

I am kind of sad that the most prominent female executive is stepping down. Everyone knew that if HP did not live up to all the hype projected from the Compaq merger, Fiorina would be losing her job. It will be interesting to see where the direction of HP goes now that she is out of the picture.

The once mighty computer company now reduced to printers and ink. I think HP should take a hard look at getting out of the computer business. I mean, it's a very tough consumer market out there, with better, faster, cheaper. It's hard to make money if you have to constantly cut prices to keep up with your competition.

Poor, Walter Hewlett. The board should have listened to him. I wonder if his father would be turning in his grave.

posted by ~clai @ 10:12 AM