[seunosewa]

What precisely did Carly Fiorina do weong, and what precisely should she have done instead?

[scholia]

Spending $25 billion on a PC company was a pretty dumb idea. Spending $25 billion on Compaq, which had spent almost $10 billion on DEC, was even dumber: either it duplicated the existing business (PCs) or complicated the existing business (severs) by adding duplicate products.

Trying to buy PriceWaterhouseCooper for $14 billion might have been a good move but it was a dumb price. IBM later bought it for $4 billion.

I did go and see her talk at Comdex. She was remarkably clueless about technology.

[jsudhams]

I think she kind of kill the HP Way read http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/2002/2002_04_10....

[chrisbennet]

Thanks, that article was very helpful.

[chrisbennet]

That's a good question. I don't know why someone downvoted you. My best friend worked for HP and disliked her but I too would be interested in knowing the answers to your questions.