Wow, this has been a good-news week:
- Carly Fiorina has finally been shown the door at H-P. Good riddance. She did more, faster, to ruin that company than any other CEO I can think of (including the stinkers in Byron’s book). Chris Larsen and I used to joke that when he graduated, he could start his own company named Hewlett, Packard, & Larsen– that’s how much he (and I!) relied on our H-P calculators. Now their core businesses are in shambles, except for their printing/imaging business. That generates 75% of their income, a far cry from the days when test equipment, servers, and other sectors were their strengths.
- The FCC shot down digital must-carry. Good for them. There’s no reason to compel local cable systems to carry junk channels, and since broadcasters have already shown an inclination to use their DTV bandwidth to multicast shopping channels and other stuff that gets them paid, I say let them do it on their own dime.
- I can upgrade my DirecTiVo unit to use release 4.x of the TiVo software. Home Media Option, here I come!
- My friend, and fellow MVP, Martin Blackstone and his wife just had a new baby
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Hm. I’m not sure I’d completely blame Carly for the fact that Imaging and Printing is the lions share of HP’s revenue. While Carly truly did suck (“Hey let’s go buy PWC! Oh wait, we can’t? Let’s go buy Compaq instead then! Because, you know… a computer company is just like a consulting firm! Yeah!”), the fact is that the margins on Toner and Ink Cartridges are absolutely astounding compared to scientific devices.
I’m not so sure that Martin should be reproducing. He should have stopped at one. Now his wife will be buying diapers for 3!