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HP names Meg Whitman new CEO

Original post made on Sep 22, 2011

HP has named former eBay CEO and 2010 Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman as president and CEO effective immediately, the company announced today. Whitman replaces Leo Apotheker, who departs after less than a year on the job. In a statement, the HP board said Whitman, who herself joined the HP board eight months ago, possesses "additional attributes" to help the company execute its strategy.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, September 22, 2011, 2:51 PM

Comments (11)

Posted by Poor H-P
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Sep 22, 2011 at 5:11 pm

Whitman? Oy vey!

Misters Hewlett and Packard must be spinning in their graves faster than an HP Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Enterprise Hard Drive at 10k-RPM.


Posted by Hmmm
a resident of another community
on Sep 22, 2011 at 8:35 pm

Better HP than politics...talked about a SCSI choice...


Posted by Roy Thiele-Sardina
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Sep 23, 2011 at 12:01 pm

Ms. Whitman is a stunning leader, and reat for HP. will be g

A friend of mine posted something today on facebook that I thought was interesting:

Silicon Valley fails on CEO optimization algorithms this past year. Carol Bartz should have gone to HP and Meg Whitman should have gone to Yahoo


This is an interesting take: Ms. Bartz has a great deal of Hardware and Systems experience (DEC, Sun, AutoDesk) and clearly Ms. Whitman has the Internet expertise from eBay.

Silicon Valley is not always perfect.

Roy Thiele-Sardina


Posted by Chandu
a resident of another community
on Sep 23, 2011 at 7:43 pm

If Meg does make a success, this area is famous for being friends of the successful on the right. An idea is to invest heavily in companies which deal in products for chapped lips and wholesale tuna for all those elegant parties you will be welcoming her back with.


verification code IS correct.


Posted by Menlo Voter
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Sep 23, 2011 at 8:26 pm


verification code IS correct.

R. Gordon is still with us.


Posted by IVANA
a resident of another community
on Sep 24, 2011 at 9:13 am

I HAVE MISSED THE MOST HONEST PERSON. THANK YOU R.GORDON.

SOME PEOPLE CANNOT BEAR TO BE WITHOUT YOU. LIKE ME AND THE MENLO VOT
ERS.
YES, HE HAS BEEN MISSED.


Posted by IVANA
a resident of another community
on Sep 25, 2011 at 12:01 pm

I WILL MOST DEFINITELY BE LOOKING FOR SOME HUGE CHANGES I HAVE HEARD THAT MEG HAS PLANNED AND IT IS GOING TO TROUBLE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHEN SHE UNVEILS HER NEW ALLIES............AND THEY WILL NOT BE LOCALS.


Posted by POGO
a resident of Woodside: other
on Sep 25, 2011 at 2:02 pm

Chandu said "this area is famous for being friends of the successful on the right."

You think that's limited to the Bay Area? Have you ever been to New York, LA, Washington, Chicago, Sacramento...


Posted by Menlo Voter
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Sep 25, 2011 at 4:05 pm

come on editor - chandu and nana are the same person. It's realy not that hard to see teh vilation of terms.


Posted by R.Gordon
a resident of another community
on Sep 26, 2011 at 10:42 am

I do believe that POGO did NOT get the point. Those OTHER areas are NOT in this richest COUNTY in the COUNTRY.
WAKE UP and stop defending the indefensible who are still being investigated, while fellow Republican IS doing the giving of millions for learning institutions, which is not the case of most of her detractors or,most of you.
The loss of Perry to Cain should be a much bigger problem to your way of focussing on Meg. That is why she is commendable.She does good while she ignores most unworthy criticism.



Posted by Menlo Voter
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Sep 26, 2011 at 11:24 am

Editor:

that makes three names R. Gordon has posted under now.


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