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RE: Thats really bad...
By drycrust3 on 9/20/2011 3:00:33 PM , Rating: 2
It almost seems like this guy is trying to fail.

I think this guy is just in it for the severance pay he'll get when they fire him. Why else would he be undoing all the hard work done to secure a long term future for HP? It looks like he is trying hard to ensure that his removal from office is so urgent that shareholders would pay any price for him to leave.
Look: PC sales are amongst the best in the world -> being sold, having tablets and smartphones in stores for this Christmas is almost essential for a long term future in the wider mobile market (which is expected to grow by hundred's of millions of users within the next few years) -> binned and stock sold off at below cost, webOS avoided Microsoft and Apple's patent wars and is highly respected -> shelved and staff laid off, gets HP to squander money that should have been spent making the tablets and smartphones world beaters -> buying into a software company that has little to do with anything they currently do. That company would be a better fit for Oracle or IBM, which is how they make their money.
For the last 20 years HP has worked and strived to be where they are now, and then just at the dawn of a new era he turns up and every action he has taken has been to ensure that HP isn't the early bird that gets the worm, but secures the destruction of HP, not just as a supplier of end user computers, not just in terms of damning their share value (which people bought anticipating HP would be the early bird in the field), but the whole lock, stock, and future.
Why? Why does every decision seem aimed to destroy a company that has everything going for it? The only logical reason is he wants the shareholders to pay him to leave.
It would not surprise me if the smell of vomit hangs around the corridors near his office.
I'm glad I am not an employee of HP because I honestly do not think I would be able to restrain myself from venting my feelings if I saw him.

