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Meg Whitman to Step Down as HPE CEO

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184 points praneshp | 3 comments | 21 Nov 17 21:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.948s | source
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rdlecler1 ◴[22 Nov 17 04:12 UTC] No.15754169[source]▶
eBay is a shadow of what it could have been, and so I really can’t compliment her on her tenure there. She was on a rocket ship and took it to the moon instead of to mars. HP on the other hand was as tough as a gig as Yahoo. I don’t know how you turn around a company like that. HP is a zombie company living off of its legacy.
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1. cjsuk ◴[22 Nov 17 11:36 UTC] No.15756026[source]▶
HP was going down the pan when they spun off Agilent with their original business. That was the rat leaving the sinking ship.
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2. CamperBob2 ◴[22 Nov 17 12:04 UTC] No.15756139[source]▶
More like the captain breaking out of the brig after a mutiny and stealing a lifeboat.
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3. cjsuk ◴[22 Nov 17 14:07 UTC] No.15756839[source]▶
I prefer that story! It leaves me with a picture of Dave and Bill paddling away quickly with a boat full of oscilloscopes (even though this was after their time)