Fiorina ousted

February 9, 2005 | Matt Marshall | Comments |

UPDATE: Interesting to see Roger McNamee’s take on this, i.e., that the HP-Compaq merger was destined to fail. And while he diplomatically says Fiorina wasn’t a “total failure,” his argument nevertheless suggests she wasn’t the right person for the job.

Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina has been ousted by the company’s board of directors. It happens a day after Kleiner Perkins’ Tom Perkins joins the board.

Initial Mercury News story here.

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Brad Wright

Hopefully, this will encourage other boards of directors around the country to take a more hands on approach. Great job guys! If only it could have happend sooner.

Anonymous Techie

Reading the comments on the Slashdot story is pretty entertaining:

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/09/1352218

tim

the link to the McNamee story is broken.

Matt Marshall

Thanks, have corrected.

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