Fiorina Ousted as Hewlett-Packard CEO

Obloquium · Post by **Obloquium** » 2005-02-09 12:54pm

WaPo wrote:Fiorina Ousted as Hewlett-Packard CEO

By Fred Barbash
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 9, 2005; 12:03 PM

Carly Fiorina, one of the nation's most prominent technology executives and a popular symbol of women in big business, was ousted as the head of computer services giant Hewlett-Packard today over "strategic differences" with her board of directors.

Fiorina was chief executive and chairman of the company

Robert P. Wayman, the company's chief financial officer and interim chief executive, said the main problem was the company's loss of market share in several core areas of its broad computer-related business and inadequate profit margins generally.

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Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2005-02-09 01:39pm

It was just a question of time...
She wasn't really all that gifted with leading HighPrices....

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2005-02-09 02:00pm

Inevitable, her drastic (and mostly unsuccessful) changes at HP combined with the terrible handling of the Compaq merger meant that she wasn't going to be kept unless she delivered a stellar couple of quarters and she didn't deliver. I think the only reason she's held on this long is due to star power; she's one of the most powerful women in technology and she has a sort of minor celebrity status in the tech world.

Chmee · Post by **Chmee** » 2005-02-09 02:02pm

The Kernel wrote:Inevitable, her drastic (and mostly unsuccessful) changes at HP combined with the terrible handling of the Compaq merger meant that she wasn't going to be kept unless she delivered a stellar couple of quarters and she didn't deliver. I think the only reason she's held on this long is due to star power; she's one of the most powerful women in technology and she has a sort of minor celebrity status in the tech world.

And now she'll just be famous for not succeeding at integrating Compaq into HP ...

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2005-02-09 02:15pm

The HP Compaq merger is the reason I only buy IBM nowdays.

Used to love Compaq and HATE! HP.

So sorry but I cannot supoort HP in any way shape or form.

The only good thing from HP is Laserjet III

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2005-02-09 04:15pm

Faram wrote:The only good thing from HP is Laserjet III

Unfortunately their laser printer design was long since outsourced, IIRC. I still see LaserJet III and 4-series printers still chugging along.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2005-02-09 04:22pm

Their printer unit is currently the one thing still churning out profits.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2005-02-09 04:40pm

Dahak wrote:Their printer unit is currently the one thing still churning out profits.

Is it any wonder with a business model as retarded as theirs? "Ignore profits--we want to be a big company instead of a successful one."

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2005-02-09 04:56pm

phongn wrote:
Faram wrote:The only good thing from HP is Laserjet III
Unfortunately their laser printer design was long since outsourced, IIRC. I still see LaserJet III and 4-series printers still chugging along.

Yepp I also see them now and then.

At the office we have a LJ III that just chugs along.

I do understand why they son't make quality like that anymore, there is no profit in stuff that is maitinence free (almost) and works.

I fucking hate new printers with fucked up builtin printservers and whatnot. I want to manage the printer from the File & Print server not from some funky webinteface... Sorry this is turning into a rant...

Anyways a fucking HP server cost me a job once, it hasseled so mutch so I lost the gig.

I later heard that the first thing the new guy did was to junk the HP server and get a new one.

But the dumbass boss would not let me do that but for the new guy, hey that's ok.

Ahh well that buissnies went bellyup in the post happydays of IT mania.

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2005-02-09 06:32pm

Faram wrote:I do understand why they son't make quality like that anymore, there is no profit in stuff that is maitinence free (almost) and works.

There is if they charge an arm and a leg for ink and toner, which is exactly what they do.

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2005-02-09 06:56pm

....OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE!

There's talk of the former Compaq CEO being offered the slot at HP. Lemme get this straight...HP, a mediocre computer company, buys Compaq, a HIDEOUS computer company, then fires the CEO that presided over the buyout. And offers it to the man who ran Satanw...Compaq. What, are they TRYING to slit their own wrists?

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2005-02-09 08:07pm

Compaq wasn't exactly in dire straights when HP bought them out. Look at it from a managerial perspective.

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2005-02-09 08:38pm

I never thought she was much of a person to look up to. I think she mostly showed that women in big business can get up high now (rarely), but she never seemed to demonstrate competance. So... one step forward, two steps back?