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To: rudedog who wrote (2184)	11/12/2002 1:55:43 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 4345

Sure is starting to sound like Michael was brought on almost as a "place saver" until Ben could sell the company, not that Michael engineered the sale on his own. [nah, that's too inarticulate] Here is an mildly amusing article referencing the circumstances of Shane's hire: Compaq rounds out management with CTO By Joe Wilcox Staff Writer, CNET News.com October 5, 2000, 9:35 AM PT Compaq Computer today filled the last major vacancy in its management staff. Shane V. Robison, a former AT&T executive, will fill Compaq's long-vacant position of chief technology officer. Robison is leaving AT&T Labs, where he was president of Internet technology, to join Compaq. Robison also worked at software and consulting company Cadence Design Systems, where he served as president of the design productivity group. Compaq has been slowly filling senior management openings since the April 1999 shakeup that ousted former CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer. It took Compaq until February of this year to fill the position of chief financial officer vacated by Earl Mason. Jesse Greene now holds the position. "Shane Robison is uniquely qualified to help the Compaq team advance its strategic growth plan from both an internal and external perspective," Compaq chief executive Michael Capellas said in a statement. "Shane joins the company at an exciting time, as we move forward with a clear business strategy that will fully harness his expertise in Internet-based technologies as well as in the development of more cool stuff from Compaq." In July, Compaq beefed up its marketing operations in an effort to boost its brand awareness, leaving just the CTO's office as the major management position open. The CTO announcement comes less than a week after Capellas was named chairman of Compaq's board. He fills the position vacated by retiring Compaq co-founder Ben Rosen.

To: rudedog who wrote (2184)	11/12/2002 3:41:30 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4345

Total gossip, but some more flash insight to our new Shane: (but it sure fits your buddy's views) :)) Remember this? Compaq alienates top boffins Staff walk out of meeting By Mike Magee: Monday 27 August 2001, 10:54 THE INQUIRER has learned of a remarkable worldwide presentation inside Compaq which has resulted in the alienation of a number of top scientists and engineers at the troubled Houston outfit. Apparently, on the 2nd of August, Compaq's global research units were treated to a confidential strategic roadmap presentation by Dr. Alex Stepanov, VP & Chief Scientist. Stepanov, a Russian, was brought in by chief technology officer Shane Robison to front the CTO's office. Sources tell the INQUIRER that this office was largely responsible for the decision to sink the Alpha iceberg in favour of the Itanic. Time to re-orient the whole research organisation and to look in a visionary kind of a way, ahead, then. According to our fly-on-the-wall, this is what happened next: "Dr. Stepanov's presentation was not well received by the technical staff, most of whom are blue-chip PhDs from Stanford, MIT etc. "Stepanov lost his cool and in front of the entire worldwide organisation watching by teleconference, started bellowing in his Russian accent: 'you can all quit! I have authority! Shane appointed me! You have never produced any good proposals! Research is not important!' and so on. "In this debut presentation to the cream of the research staff, he alienated the staff and undermined the credibility of the CTO office. Things got so bad that people walked out of the talk, including the director of the Systems Research Center (who incidentally has resigned and will now head up the new Microsoft Research division in Silicon Valley). "In short, the research component at Compaq is coming unglued, and the new CTO office is creating a hullaballoo. Morale has gotten very bad during the past year, since the new CTO arrived, but now it has gone beyond rock bottom. Expect a significant number of departures of talented research staff in the near future." µ ...Compaq was not available for comment at press time but we will be very happy to present Mr Robison and Dr Stepanov's view of these proceedings. ...