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To: TigerPaw who wrote (71079)	9/14/2006 10:53:23 PM
From: alydar	Respond to of 77400

imho, carly fiorina was a dope. what value did compaq bring to the table? HPQ is still making most of their money off of the printing business. Buyina a PC company with a server line was totally reduntant. IMO, she was management viper who created big changes for big news. i just do not see any value that she created. Mr. Hurd cleaned up her mess and consolidated the PC and server brands under one name HP. When you go to Comp USA what do you see, HP. They should have listened to the founder son and stayed a printer company and then have HP innovate their way up the supply channel to create value. Thats what they did anyway and could have been done without the merger. She did eliminate a large competitor thoug. Alydar.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (71079)	9/15/2006 1:40:42 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

Fiorina bet heavily on the PC sector just as it was becoming a commodity. When she was let go the company quickly shed duplicate efforts in PC production. Two months after she left HPQ's PC division posted stronger than expected profits, and has improved their PC operating margin ever since. That PC profit improvement is from actions taken during Fiorina's time period, but they kicked in just immediately when she was fired - you can't attribute that to brand new CEO Hurd. Had she been give 6 more months as CEO SHE would be getting the accolades for that, not Hurd. Hurd is the luckiest CEO around while he reaps what she sewed.