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> Following the ousting of HP CEO Mark Hurd, [Ellison stated], ...HP board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Stev
by starik36 12y ago
> Following the ousting of HP CEO Mark Hurd, [Ellison stated], ...HP board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago
I don't know about Ellison's personal traits, but his thinking is correct here. Hurd was a great CEO - having brought in Palm - which could have been something. Instead, they fired him, hired Leo Apotheker, who completely and utterly mismanaged the company.
Say what you will about Ellison, but his instincts are right on the money.
- ScottBurson 12y agoApotheker was a disaster -- everybody agrees about that -- but Hurd had serious problems too. He was all about cutting costs, with little product vision. He gutted R&D and fed, rather than pruning, the HP bureaucracy. Meg Whitman is a vast, vast improvement over both of them. (HP employee here.)