[shrinkermd]

I am surprised at your condemnation of this effective person. In the last three years (since 2005)this stock has more than doubled. At the same time, the thing the family fired here for--purchase of Compaq--has been an outstanding success and HPQ is now the world's largest and most profitable microcomputer maker.

If you have time look: HERE.

She was, and is, an outstanding successful executive. Getting fired by the relatives of the founder of the company is not a black mark when the reason for the firing proved without merit.

Full disclosure: I bought and sold HPQ at a considerable profit.

[calcowgirl]

Wow--ya mean after 3 years since she was ousted, it has almost reached the stock price when she took over?

Mighty impressive! I'm sure the long term investor is really pleased with that performance. /s

Here's a better HPQ chart -- one that shows what happened under her watch.