CARLY FIORINA STATEMENT ON APPOINTMENT TO GOVERNOR-ELECT SCHWARZENEGGER'S TRANSITION COMMITTEE

Harrisdirect ^ | Oct. 9, 2003 | Business Wire

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PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 9, 2003--HP (NYSE:HPQ.N) today issued the following statement from Carly Fiorina, HP chairman and chief executive officer, regarding her appointment to Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger's Transition Committee:

"We're honored to be playing an advisory role in this important transition. We believe a healthy business environment is critical to HP and every other California employer, large or small. The state is facing a unique and extraordinary set of challenges and opportunities that demand the involvement of all of us to address them. It's time for everyone to pull together to improve California's competitiveness."

About HP

HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing for consumers, enterprises and small and medium businesses. For the last four quarters, HP revenue totaled $71.3 billion. More information about HP is available at www.hp.com.

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[Orangedog]

Wonderful. SHe runs HP into the ground and now she's part of the transision team. Why don't they just hire Davis as well?!

[oceanview]

and she also ran Lucent into the ground, before leaving the current team to finish it off.

this is the worst member of the team so far that I have seen mentioned. and HP is one of the leaders in offshoring and H1B hiring.

[Map Kernow]

Wonderful. SHe runs HP into the ground and now she's part of the transision team. Why don't they just hire Davis as well?!

"I am WOMAN...I am STRONG...I'll take the heat when Arnold's WRONG...."

Carly Fiorina

[Brian S]

HP is one of the leaders in offshoring and H1B hiring.

Ahhhh...a "neocon" wetdream!!!

[upchuck]

This lady pretty much destroyed Lucent. Now she's trying real hard to drive HP into the ground. She's like Davis: the Peter Principle personified. Arnold could certainly do better.

[JoeSchem]

Why don't they just hire Davis as well?!

Shhh! Don't give them ideas!

[Orangedog]

I'll believe she's a woman when I see the x-rays.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Wonderful. SHe runs HP into the ground and now she's part of the transision team. Why don't they just hire Davis as well?!

We'll maybe the question will be posed "what can California do to make business conditions better so that outsourcing will be less attractive."

[#3Fan]

CARLY FIORINA...

I saw this in the headline and thought it was another play on the way Arnold says "California".

[oceanview]

i guess they felt they needed a visible businesswoman, so she was a top pick, little do they know.

[Orangedog]

She gutted Lucent, is destroying HP, and has cost the tech economy tens of thoudands of jobs. Now the Economic Nosferatu is about to sink her fangs into whats left of CA's economy...crosses and holy water, people...crosses and holy water.

[Tree of Liberty]

He should've asked T. J. Rodgers (Cypress Semiconductor CEO), instead.

[goldstategop]

She brought in Compaq with the merger.... of course she's a high profile Silicon Valley CEO.

[bvw]

Is she CFR?

[Orangedog]

She brought in Compaq with the merger.... of course she's a high profile Silicon Valley CEO.

Yes, let's talk about the post-merger Compaqs...This year the company I work for switched from Dell laptops to Compaqs. more than 2/3 of them have had to be sent back because of BSOD's, spontanious restarts and lock-ups. Now people are fighting for the few remaining Dell P2 laptops and do everything they can to avoid the compaqs. The Dells are old and slow, but at least they work. I'm typing this on a pre-merger Presario and have had zero problems.

[bvw]

Sometimes a good leader will appoint a compromised person to such a position to set a trap, or at least to isolate them, or have or gain a line on them.

[Carry_Okie]

Carly is Julie Packard's choice (and slowly running HP into the ground IMHO). Considering all the enviro-wack stuff Julie Packard is into, this could be a problematic appointment.

[Hildy]

Thanks for the giggle!