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From: Mxsmanic on 27 May 2010 18:45 John Navas writes: > Evidence is mounting that BP cut corners in haste to move the rig to > another drill site. Some countries put corporate officers in prison for decisions like that.
From: Mxsmanic on 27 May 2010 18:47 John Navas writes: > IBM has actually been doing quite well, and it's certainly not clear > that Watson would have done any better. But it was the only game in town at one time, and the best place to work as well. > HP has rebounded nicely now that she's gone, recently passing IBM as > server king. I haven't used their hardware in a while. At one time, it was second to none (Compaq was very popular at one time, but Compaq loved weirdness whereas HP was always quite conservative). I don't know if it's any good today. I'd like to think so.
From: John Navas on 27 May 2010 19:04 On Fri, 28 May 2010 00:45:43 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote in <cfttv59pfrsqjh13sg3eb9tdn3vip27b19(a)4ax.com>: >John Navas writes: > >> Evidence is mounting that BP cut corners in haste to move the rig to >> another drill site. > >Some countries put corporate officers in prison for decisions like that. We'll probably just slap them on the wrist and then turn a blind eye to the next big bonus. [sigh] -- Best regards, John Buying a dSLR doesn't make you a photographer, it makes you a dSLR owner. "The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it." -Ansel Adams
From: John McWilliams on 27 May 2010 19:50 Mxsmanic wrote: > John McWilliams writes: > >> Did IBM crash after Tom Watson retired? > > It has never recaptured the glory deads of Watson. > >> H-P after Messr's Hewlett and Packard? > > Carly Fiorina pretty much destroyed HP. You're picking two examples out of a handful, and it's not a given that IBM still isn't a top company; same with H-P esp with Fiorina out. More to the point, John Navas gave a much more exhaustive list.... how come no refutation of that bunch, or the other companies on mine? -- john mcwilliams
From: J. Clarke on 27 May 2010 22:34
On 5/27/2010 7:50 PM, John McWilliams wrote: > Mxsmanic wrote: >> John McWilliams writes: >> >>> Did IBM crash after Tom Watson retired? >> >> It has never recaptured the glory deads of Watson. >> >>> H-P after Messr's Hewlett and Packard? >> >> Carly Fiorina pretty much destroyed HP. > > You're picking two examples out of a handful, and it's not a given that > IBM still isn't a top company; same with H-P esp with Fiorina out. Interesting that a "destroyed" HP has revenues 20 billion or so greater than the "never recaptured the glory days" IBM, that has revenues greater than visionary-led Apple and until-recently-visionary-led Microsoft combined. Further, the "destroyed" HP has about 5 times the revenues that it ever had when Hewlett or Packard was in charge, and "never recaptured the glory days IBM" more than doubled its revenues in the ten years after Tom Watson Junior died and now has revenues more than ten times what it ever had with a Watson at the helm. > More to the point, John Navas gave a much more exhaustive list.... how > come no refutation of that bunch, or the other companies on mine? > > |