Uk's most succesful software firm sold to HP

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They had the stupid bint Carly Fiorina (sp?) at the helm for a while - she who decided a commodity business like PCs was the way forward
I've come to the conclusion that the people at the very top of large companies have no outstanding talents apart from political nous and some are downright stupid.

That's when I was there, about 10 years ago. Her first big job was buying compaq. Nobody knew why at the time. If I recall correctly, HP already had their own brand of PCs and compaq seemed to be on the downslope.

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Nobody knew why at the time.

New ambitious CEO in a big company wants to make quick impact (probably to get big bonus), result - strategy of acquisitions.

To be fair back then PCs were not as cheap as they are now - the only people who make real money on them are Intel and Microsoft.

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