Today, Carly Fiorina, the CEO of Hewlett Packard was fired by the board.

A great day for our high tech industry.  This woman, armed with only a BA in History, ran aground one of the most iconic American institutions.  Good riddance ...  Before that, she damaged the legendary AT&T Bell Laboratories [now called Lucent.]

Now, she apparently has plans to enter politics!  Let's see if she will be running as a Republican or a Democrat!  

deliver.  They should spin off the printer business.  

Michael Dell is a very smart guy.





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Fiorina is a Republican.

and that as much as anything is what has led to their downfall.
I find a major personal irony in my own acknowledgement that I STILL won't even consider any printer other than an HP for myself or my business at this time, despite their recent problems.

HP makes the best printing engines on the market.

Additionally, HP dominates the higher end test equipment manufacturing realm (although Fluke is gaining).

An offshoot of the test equipment was computing. HP designed and integrated some RS6000 based computers into their test platforms and decided to try and get into the PC market.

HP servers sucked (too much proprietary crap), although I have been impressed with their laptops (from what little I've played with).

Compaq's star was flaming out when Carly screwed the company over with her mega-merger dreams, now she's gone (and good riddance too).

Dell owns the PC market, Gateway is a joke and IBM has abandoned the market as well.

Worked as a road warrior doing network design and analysis for several years. They had a relationship with Dell and I never had any service problems with my Latitudes.

One time I had to have Dell come out to a client site and replace the display, I called them and they had the part there and fixed the next day. I broke the AC adaptor plug on the road and they overnighted a new adaptor the next day.

But I have heard of some Dell horror stories as well.

I prefer SPARC stations, but my budget doesn't exactly "support" having one at home.

I do like the flip monitor that works with the MAC. That was a cool invention.