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To: rudedog who wrote (3538)	8/20/2004 12:10:29 AM
From: BelowTheCrowd	Respond to of 4345

At the old HP no such whip cracking occured, and that was a shame, because there more often than not were no real goals, and no real pressure to exceed targets. I was one of the ones who was hopeful that Carly would bring in a bit more aggressive targeting. Unfortunately, things are too off-kilter in the opposite direction now. It's good that there is some pressure on the divisions and business units to excel, but it becomes bad when the pressure is to meet benchmarks that the divisions and business units think are absurd. The result of that situation (which exists right now) is that virtually all levels of management spend lots of time trying to "bury" problems for long enough to get out intact and go someplace else. Unfortuantely, the "meet the target by any means, don't bother me with details" worked for only a few years, and mostly at companies that have since imploded, whose officers have been indicted, etc. That LU and everybody involved (Carly included) managed to avoid such accountability is too bad. They invented lots of this crap.

To: rudedog who wrote (3538)	8/20/2004 10:31:10 AM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4345

Thank you for your insights. From Terry Shannon (Aug 18th): “So what's going on at HP? It seems that the HP Way (one voice, no choice) has assimilated and neutered the agressive folks from COMPAQ and Digital. Just as it was when HP was sliding down the tubes before the merger, it appears that the aces responsible for that fiasco have regained control of the HP cockpit and are accelerating the nosedive now that a temporary period of merger-related lucidity has come and gone. As a good friend and director says, "We're stuck in the mud".” Duke: Right after Blackmore's exit, hp announced several improvements to their larger operating systems. It could be that Blackmore directed that HP drag it's feet on the improvements, with the thought that this would force more of a transition to IA64. But it may be that this "computer glicth with sap" may have been an old guard delay to supply him with new qoutes for the sale, giving Dell a free ride. Meantime the "old guard" goes running to carly saying look how Blackmore screwed up!!! by pushing IA before it is ready and simultaneouly bombarding Carly and the board with the same studies that were just release showing how customers just loved the old stuff and did not want to switch, and how unix is GROWING!!!. This is my imagination only, but it sure fits. And if Carly fell for this she should not have. CRN, the Webzine for the channel has some interesting articles hinting that their members might go with Dell. This might be a negotiating tack to keep out IA64. Their is a huge conflict of interest here. The transition to IA 64 is the beggining of the end for big fees by the channel, so Blackmore had a major problem to deal with. I have heard that Blackmore was put in place by Capellas, and I think you told me that right before Capellas was "let go" he gave a big presentation to the new board on Eliminating the channel, altogether. But this is just total musings on my part I have no real knowledge of the issues.