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To: rudedog who wrote (58825)4/19/1999 11:03:00 PM
From: TigerPaw  Respond to of 97611
 
an active and informed board who knows the business,
Somehow this reminds me of the disaster of a CEO that IBM had a few years back, John Akers. The replacement has worked out okay. Perhaps this time Rosen needs to look outside of CPQ so that he doesn't promote someone who is schooled in the old ways of CPQs business model.
(To my mind starting the small servers market was the last good idea that Compaq & Co. has had. They've been coasting ever since until the buying spree of the last couple years)
TP



To: rudedog who wrote (58825)4/19/1999 11:32:00 PM
From: fooledalot  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 97611
 
rudedog,

>>....but a $40B company is a different animal than a $2B one.

Michael Dell and Bill gates are obvious exceptions to this rule but off the top of my head I can't think of too many others.

Michael Dell still hasn't seen $40B, so my guess is the jury is still out there.

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