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This decision is better than their CEO pick (meg whitman) but these big decisions affect each other... I don't see much future but decline for HP

• reissbaker 15y ago
  Kinda makes me like Whitman more, though. Wish she'd been around before the WebOS disaster.
  • ScottBurson 15y ago
    The only credit I give Whitman for this is that she realized that the markets (both PC customers and the stock market) had already spoken, and they did not like the spinoff plan. Analysts had already pointed out that existing synergies (the supply chain, etc.) would be lost. I think it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that the spinoff decision would be reversed, although I'll grant Whitman the benefit of the doubt and assume that she really did study the question deeply and with an open mind. I doubt she would have reversed the WebOS decision even if she had had the chance. As much as we techies may bemoan it, the fact is that for HP to see any profit from the Palm acquisition, it would have had to suffer losses for several years and then try to recoup them in an extremely competitive environment (read: low margins). I think the real mistake there was when Hurd bought Palm in the first place, and I see no evidence that anyone in HP's upper management thinks otherwise.