http://www.osnews.com/story/25183/Whitman_Expected_to_Be_Named_at_HP Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 24 May 2013 17:54:38 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?490399 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490399 Th open opinion is to maintain Apotheker's strategy so as not to make the company look like it has no direction (and lose more share price).

Give it until Whitman's opening speech to see a new direction. If the board were happy with the current direction they wouldnt be looking for a replacement would they? Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adurbe) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?490400 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490400 stabilise the WebOS userbase. Hp lost a lot of money but now have a Massive userbase from nowhere. I think they will look to take advantage of this and do something clever with WebOS (licence/open source is my guess, they will make the money back via the store) Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adurbe) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?490403 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490403 Whitman, just like every politician/CEO will doom the company, in that she will make it all about herself, and not about the better interests of HP and its shareholders. She's a publicity hound, and that's likely to be a serious problem for HP. I hope they reconsider. Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (drobert_bfm) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?490410 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490410 No longer expected: has been. Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Vanders) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?490415 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490415 I feel bad for anybody that has to work with her. Having learned an awful lot about her during California's previous Gubernatorial race, her reputation for actual physical mistreatment of those who work for her is well known. She has a tendency to hit her employees, and has been known to throw heavy objects.

I won't even get started on the allegations against her family's wrong doing... Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Drumhellar) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?490416 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490416 HP will no longer be relevant to consumers, save for their Ink business, since Ink is all margin.

All of their others efforts are going toward "The Enterprise". Get out of the commodity, low margin, support intensive crap and focus on big sales of big things and the ever important, undefinable, "Services".

The entire board is an Enterprise person or someone who HP apparently owes money to (i.e. equity firms). There's one long term science guy, and I bet he leaves.

HP isn't an engineering company any more, it's a services company with a legacy hardware business that nobody on the board or the CEO understands. Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (whartung) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?490427 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490427 The people who have worked for her at eBay generally - if not universally - speak well of her. Everyone from people 'at the bottom' to senior executives.

So just because she would make a poor politician does not mean she makes a poor CEO. Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kristoph) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?490444 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490444 ... umm, HP is the largest manufacturer of consumer PC's. Fri, 23 Sep 2011 05:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kristoph) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?490454 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490454 That may well be true

But for how long?

This indecision by HP over their PC biz and with Business Purchasing dropping off at an alarming rate plus the domestic purse strings being tightened as well who will want to buy their kit?

Mind you, the last two points apply to other PC makers but at the moment, HP is a 'sell'. Fri, 23 Sep 2011 05:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (shotsman) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?490465 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490465 Whitman is almost a hitman... Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JAlexoid) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?490469 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490469 http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/22/hp-names-meg-whitman-new-ceo-giv... Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adurbe) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?490472 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490472 The board is only unhappy about the drop in stock price, which they don't see as connected to the direction of the company. They just wanted it all done more carefully so no one got scared. Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sorpigal) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?490473 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490473 So Apotheker Arrived. Murdered WebOS . Left. Nice work.Edited 2011-09-23 12:21 UTC Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (adinas) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?490477 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490477 I think picking the former CEO of EBay was a wise choice. Her leadership and seasoned experience should greatly facilitate the auctioning off of HP's assets.

PC Business: Auction ending in 5,4,3... Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fretinator) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?490503 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490503 Well, we'll always have Meego! Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (korpenkraxar) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?490507 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490507 Maybe they'll start bringing the DEC legacy back! VMS, Itaniums, terminals, all sorts of goodies that consumers don't want but nerds love. I do admire the fact that they're trying to differentiate on audio chipsets in the age of ac97 HDA crap, but Beats headphones are overpriced crap, and I have to wonder if the same is true of their soundcards. Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tidux) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?490509 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490509 I am just wondering why the Nokia board does not take similar actions with Stephen Elop.... Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ebasconp) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?490519 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490519 now it would be a great time to sell it, or short it. Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tylerdurden) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?490525 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490525 or buy, its down a fair bit at the moment :-p Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adurbe) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?490537 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490537 Well, sure if you intend in helping those selling or shorting... Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tylerdurden) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?490697 http://www.osnews.com/thread?490697 They are both opposite of each other. One board fires it's ceo every week, the other never does. Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (adinas) Comments