[ghitma]

First, Carly Fiorina chases the engineers out of a company that had the best of them (HP). Now, IBM, whose workstations, servers and notebooks were solid (e.g. Intellistation

Whats going on over at HP? I thought they were in good shape.

[sittnick]

HP might be presently in decent shape financially, but they have lost a LOT of engineers when Fiorina made it clear that their positions were not safe. Their old reputation and marketing will keep them going for a while, but the quality of the business line has dropped off. (The home users' Pavilian line has been junky for years.) Even if they remain financially successful, they will have lost that aura of genius that infected even their bad products (some over-engineered laptops come to mind, as well as 100VG and New Wave operating environment).