Thursday, February 24, 2011

I, Cringely » Blog Archive » Why Leo Apotheker will be fired from Hewlett Packard - Cringely on technology

Excerpt from an intriguing Cringely HP snapshot

There is only one chance Apotheker has to save his job and that’s by buying his old company, SAP. A merger would transform HP, instantly making it a power in enterprise software, much more competitive with both Oracle and IBM, and strongly emphasize Apotheker’s strengths.  Enterprise software right now is less than five percent of HP’s total business and that has to change if Apotheker is to survive.

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It might have worked had Apotheker bought SAP on his first day of work at HP but he didn’t know then what trouble he was in. Now it is probably too late. And while his end, I think, is inevitable, it should also be very entertaining because Meg Whitman will take out Leo Apotheker with some real boardroom flash and style.

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