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To: LindyBill who wrote (99578)2/9/2005 5:21:30 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Respond to of 793649
 
The failure of the compaq deal made it inevitable. I don't know why she wanted that failing company.


Fiorina was often called "Gert in a skirt" because she tried to imitate all the devices that IBM has used - mergers, ramping up service, tarting up the books various ways - to keep the company prospering even as the underlying business goes nowhere or downhill.