The board wouldn't have hired Apotheker in the first place if they didn't approve of the direction he was going to take HP. I would guess that his firing, is d

The board wouldn't have hired Apotheker in the first place if they didn't approve of the direction he was going to take HP. I would guess that his firing, is due more to the way he went about it [1] and his overpaying for Autonomy. [1] That is: going public with the general plan too far in advance of having the details ironed out. Which arguably did real damage to the hardware division's sales and the process of trying to find a buyer for it.