On: Oracle Hires Mark Hurd As Co-President

[kiujygtyujik]

Hurd is the guy who managed to single handedly destroy the remains of HP's engineering ability. I give it about a week before the last Sun guy leaves.

Of course this could be a cunning plan to avoid the costs of redundancy payments - hire Hurd and watch all your best engineers resign for free.

[brown9-2 → kiujygtyujik]

Hurd is the guy who managed to single handedly destroy the remains of HP's engineering ability

I thought Carly Fiorina was blamed for this? How many people can single-handedly destroy something?

Let's be realistic, CEO's aren't able to get much done without the approval of the board of directors, who are elected by the company's shareholders. There are very few "single-handedly"s in business. You can't blame just the CEO, as there are people above him/her. Blame the board, blame the shareholders who didn't/don't value "HP's engineering ability".

[kiujygtyujik → brown9-2]

Fiorina destroyed HP as a great engineering company turning it into a printer ink marketing scam.

Hurd managed to get almost every remaining engineer to leave - see the stories posted here at the time.