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Stupid CEO Tricks
Vacancy at Hewlett-Packard I’m sorry to have been so out of touch lately. The Startup Tour continues, of course, but this week I also have an Op-Ed article appearing in Sunday’s New York Times that I...
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Why Leo Apotheker will be fired from Hewlett Packard
I don’t think Leo Apotheker is going to survive long as CEO of Hewlett Packard. This is not based on any inside information, just my own pondering. And when Apotheker does go down, I’m pretty sure I...
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Apple’s Money
In Steve we trust. All of us were reminded over and over and over during the last few days that Apple has more cash on hand than does the U.S. government. This coincidence means precisely nothing to...
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Brian Utley (not Meg Whitman) for HP Interim CEO
Retired IBM executive Brian Utley Since the consensus view seems to be that Hewlett Packard will today replace CEO Leo Apotheker with board member Meg Whitman, let’s just assume that’s what will...
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Meg’s Revenge
There is no joy in Round Rock. Early this morning the database servers at Dell Computer went down hard. The company is unable to accept orders on its web site and almost 5000 Dell sales reps trying to...
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The once and future WebOS
WebOS, first from Palm and then from Hewlett Packard, came and went so fast most mobile software developers never even got a chance to play with it. Now HP has declared WebOS to be Open Source, placing...
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Hear that? It’s HP founders Bill and Dave spinning in their graves
Don’t throw that scope, Bill! Corporations, especially big American corporations, file lawsuits all the time for many reasons. Often they sue to force others to comply with agreements or to punish...
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Autodesk’s John Walker explained HP and IBM in 1991
One reader of this column in particular has been urging me to abandon for a moment my obsession with IBM and look, instead, at his employer — Hewlett Packard. HP, he tells me, suffers from all the same...
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The U.S. computer industry is dying and I’ll tell you exactly who is killing...
This is my promised third column in a series about the effect of H-1B visa abuse on U.S. technology workers and ultimately on the U.S. economy. This time I want to take a very high-level view of the...
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Dell buys EMC and gets the corporate cloud for free
The Wall $treet Journal carried a story last week about Dell Computer possibly buying EMC, the big storage vendor, and this morning the New York Times confirmed it, pinning a price of $65 billion on...
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It’s Michael Dell versus the world and Dell will win
Why is this man smiling? In my last column I wrote that Dell buying EMC is a great idea (for Dell) and left it to this column to more fully explain why that is so. It takes two columns because there is...
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2016 Prediction #1 — Beginning of the end for engineering workstations
First a look at my predictions from one year ago and how they appear in the light of today: Prediction #1 — Everyone gets the crap scared out of them by data security problems. Go to the original...
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Autodesk’s John Walker explained HP and IBM in 1991
One reader of this column in particular has been urging me to abandon for a moment my obsession with IBM and look, instead, at his employer — Hewlett Packard. HP, he tells me, suffers from all the same...
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The U.S. computer industry is dying and I’ll tell you exactly who is killing...
This is my promised third column in a series about the effect of H-1B visa abuse on U.S. technology workers and ultimately on the U.S. economy. This time I want to take a very high-level view of the...
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Dell buys EMC and gets the corporate cloud for free
The Wall $treet Journal carried a story last week about Dell Computer possibly buying EMC, the big storage vendor, and this morning the New York Times confirmed it, pinning a price of $65 billion on...
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It’s Michael Dell versus the world and Dell will win
Why is this man smiling? In my last column I wrote that Dell buying EMC is a great idea (for Dell) and left it to this column to more fully explain why that is so. It takes two columns because there is...
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2016 Prediction #1 — Beginning of the end for engineering workstations
First a look at my predictions from one year ago and how they appear in the light of today: Prediction #1 — Everyone gets the crap scared out of them by data security problems. Go to the original...
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