[PLUG] Carly Fiorina and HP part ways

Terry Griffin griffint at pobox.com
Wed Feb 9 21:26:54 UTC 2005


On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:58:10AM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> 
> Carly Fiorina is no longer running HP.  From the abruptness, it
> looks like she was sacked.
>    http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2005/050209a.html
> 
> It looks like Wall Street approves:
>    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=HPQ&t=5d
> 
> And in a more humorous vein: 
>    http://www.everythingispossible.com/
> 
> Keith
> 

A big merger that didn't have the expected returns. Go figure.

Not to be on-topic or anything, but I wonder if this will have
any impact on HP's position with respect to Linux? I was never
clear on how much of HP's Linux strategy came from Carly and
how much came from others in HP.

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Terry Griffin <griffint at pobox.com>
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