On Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 10:20:10 AM UTC-4, rbowman wrote:
On 04/16/2015 05:57 AM, trader_4 wrote:
She's on many lists of the worst tech CEOs in history.
HP stock value was cut in half during her 6 year reign.
And even today, I think most of their profit is from their
other lines of business, ie printers. Her buying up Compaq
made no sense to me.

Their current server line was a carryover from Compaq, but they didn't
have to buy a company to build a decent server. The PC sales are growing
and may get a bump as the XP boxes die and are replaced. That assumes
Windows 10 isn't another pig that will discourage sales.

Still, you have to wonder what she was thinking. The margins suck and
between the recession, tablets, smart phones, and so forth the entire
industry has taken a hit.

As I said, from what I saw, she was treated as some
kind of wunderkind, going from one position to the next, being promoted, without staying anywhere long enough to even see if what she did worked
or failed beyond the short term. And she was a good self-promoter. She probably had even herself convinced that she knew what she was doing.
And a big, bold move, the Compaq merger, brought her a lot more attention.