On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Mike Miller wrote: > Here is a message from MLUG (Missouri) two months ago: > > http://mlug.missouri.edu/list-archives/discussion/2004-08/msg00138.php3 > > Jon King is really a smart guy - professor with degrees from Yale and CMU > - and I have a high regard for his nonexpert opinions. So of course this > gives me another reason to be concerned about continuing to invest in HP > products such as VMS. I am not an HP employee, and never have been. So take the following comments with a grain of salt. But one of the most destructive things that can happen with a company is to get a CEO who doesn't want to be running *that* company, but some other company. Decisions will be made with the goal to turn the company into a clone of the other company, and not what makes the most sense with where this company currently is. Gaurenting sub-optimal decisions. At best- worst case, decisions will be made in terms of what makes sense for the other company, and not for this company, gaurenteeing totally wrong decisions. >From what I've seen, Carly doesn't want to be running HP. She wants to be running Dell. And that this long-term dooms HP. -- "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." - Gene Spafford Brian _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list