It's true Canion got fired by the board of Compaq, but before that he ran the company such that it was the fastest to a billion in revenue in history. Nobody w

It's true Canion got fired by the board of Compaq, but before that he ran the company such that it was the fastest to a billion in revenue in history. Nobody wants to remember the boring business IBM compatible market but not only did Compaq make the first 386 (redefining what a PC was) they also got the other manufacturers to rally around things like the EISA bus which abruptly stopped IBM's dominance of the PC standard and made a truly open market that not only swallowed PCs, but took the minicomputer industry out at as well and everything you have on your desktop and server room is still rooted in those seminal Compaq products. It was Eckhard Pfieffer who eventually screwed the pooch and put Compaq into HPs grasp. If Canion had been allowed to flesh out his strategy for lower cost PCs that might never have happened. Apple was always a 10% of the market sideshow until they made the iPhone.