Agreed, the column is ridiculously biased. The author thinks Hurd was so great, but it was Hurd who first paid over $1B for Palm and then, when asked what HP's

Agreed, the column is ridiculously biased. The author thinks Hurd was so great, but it was Hurd who first paid over $1B for Palm and then, when asked what HP's plans were in phones, said "Oh, we only bought Palm for the IP". Apotheker isn't perfect, and there have been missteps to be sure, but on the whole, as an HP employee (recently, via the Fortify acquisition), I think Apotheker has a much better plan for HP than Hurd or Fiorina did.