[MarkL]

Wasn't Fiorina involved in the Bell Labs spin-off from AT&T which launched the disaster known as Lucent? And she pretty well drove HP into the ground.

Mark

[the anti-liberal]

Yep, and yep.

Just what bankrupt and failing California and the United States needs in the Senate, right?

[staytrue]

Fiorina probably saved the US PC industry. Compaq and HP had to merge as there was not room for both. Carly forced the merger, dumped capacity, fired a ton of workers which resulted in a strong HP, and a empty shell called Compaq, but it needed to be done. The alternative would have been 2 competitors killing each other.

GM had to kill Oldsmobile to keep Buick alive and Fiorina had to kill Compaq to keep HP alive.