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   From: kcrawford981@gmail.invalid   
      
   In article ,   
    BeamMeUpScotty   
     wrote:   
      
   > On 1/27/2015 1:07 PM, Wexford wrote:   
   > > On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 12:39:58 PM UTC-5, gy wrote:   
   > >> On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 12:12:16 PM UTC-5, Wexford wrote:   
   > >>> On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 11:23:40 AM UTC-5, gy wrote:   
   > >>>> LOLOLOLOL   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Yes. She managed to run HP damn near to hell, is a vigorous proponent of   
   > >>> outsourcing even technical design jobs, thinks that it's fine for a US   
   > >>> company to allow its developmental activities to be done overseas losing   
   > >>> its technical secrets and empowering others, and was fired from HP after   
   > >>> the utterly insane acquisition of Compac and driving it's stock down to   
   > >>> 50% of its value. Like GW Bush, she's done a lot.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> "Judgments on Fiorina's tenure at HP are mixed. In 2008, Infoworld   
   > >>> grouped her with a list of products and ideas as flops, declaring her to   
   > >>> be the "anti-Steve Jobs" for reversing the goodwill of American engineers   
   > >>> and for alienating existing customers.[56] In 2008, Loren Steffy of The   
   > >>> New York Times suggested that the EDS acquisition well after Fiorina's   
   > >>> tenure was evidence that her actions as CEO were justified.[57] However,   
   > >>> elsewhere, Fiorina frequently been ranked as one of the worst CEOs of all   
   > >>> time."   From Wiki   
   > >>   
   > >>   
   > >> Fiorina was considered one of the most powerful women in business during   
   > >> her tenure at Lucent and Hewlett-Packard. While she was chief executive at   
   > >> HP, the company weathered the collapse of the dot-com bubble, although the   
   > >> stock lost half of its value throughout her tenure.[1] In 2002, the   
   > >> company completed a contentious merger with rival computer company Compaq,   
   > >> which made HP the world's largest personal computer manufacturer. Also   
   > >> from wiki conveniently omitted by Wexford   
   > >   
   > > You missed the last paragraph which summed up her career. By the way, you   
   > > think "the stock lost half its value during her tenure" was a success   
   > > story? (Dot com bubble being irrelevant to HP, which assembled hardware.)   
   > > That merger with Compaq was a disaster that finally got her fired.   
   > >   
   > - Meg Whitman -   
   >   
   > She turned a website called eBay into a huge corporation that has   
   > thousands of employees.   
   >   
   > Here is the best so far...  Palin/Whitman ticket would give them   
   > executive experience from both the government and the private sector....   
   >   
   > Palin can run the politics of things and Whitman can tackle the   
   > economics of it.  I'd bet they could fix something.   
      
   that would be a dream ticket for the democrats. whitman couldn't buy the   
   California governorship, let's see who she'd bankrupt trying to buy the   
   Presidency   
      
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