Fantastic analysis.
My husband started working at HP in 1976, in PA with LED R&D.
Then went to San Jose, stayed through the change to Agelent then LumiLeds.
He put in 31 years and except when Carly was there loved everyday.
He told me when she was canned, the Es started singing “the witch is dead”.
When McCain was running I thought, OK maybe he can win, but then he picked Carly as his financial adviser (well you don’t want to know what I said)
HP was an icon.
And its that simple Carly killed them.
I still have my 12C. My husband bought it for me the first year it came out, he put an ap on my IPhone for the 12C last year, but I still carry the 12C when I need a calculator.
Whenever I talked to HP engineers when I finally got to the Valley, I couldn’t point to a better bunch of people who had their heads in the game, yet weren’t full of themselves (like Apple) or were just plain a-holes (Oracle).
I remember my buddy telling me about the “ding dong, the witch is dead” refrain too.
Fiorina is a horrible joke. Her ability to become a GOP-backed candidate in California without anyone in the party yelling “WHAT THE HELL ARE WE THINKING!? Get this bimbo OUT OF HERE!” was what finally exceeded my patience with the GOP.
The GOP is a party of country-club back-stabbing SOB’s and conservatives should form their own party and leave the GOP to die. Because we’re never going to get anywhere if we’re fighting on two fronts.