Last week Hewlett-Packard, which is expected to pass IBM as the largest high-tech company in the world this year, put its new CEO on stage, and much of the behind-the-scenes discussion was on why Mark Hurd has been successful while predecessor Carly Fiorina crashed and burned. Meanwhile, over at Microsoft there was one rising star who stood out above the others, a brilliant employee who had led Microsoft’s defense against open source and Linux.
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Lessons Learned From HP’s Hurd, Fiorina – and Taylor’s Sudden MS Departure
Posted by: Rob Enderle June 26, 2006 05:00 AMLast week Hewlett-Packard, which is expected to pass IBM as the largest high-tech company in the world this year, put its new CEO on stage, and much of the behind-the-scenes discussion was on why Mark Hurd has been successful while predecessor Carly Fiorina crashed and burned. Meanwhile, over at Microsoft there was one rising star who stood out above the others, a brilliant employee who had led Microsoft’s defense against open source and Linux.