"Russ Smith" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
news:a60q0a0h6b@enews3.newsguy.com...

> When he was chairman and chief executive of Hewlett-Packard (news/quote),
> Lewis E. Platt helped choose Carleton S. Fiorina as his successor in 1999.
>
> But he is opposing the company's planned purchase of Compaq Computer
> (news/quote), a merger that if rejected by shareholders will certainly
bring
> Ms. Fiorina's downfall at Hewlett-Packard. And Mr. Platt visited an
> influential shareholder advisory firm, Institutional Shareholder Services
in
> Rockville, Md., last week to explain why he is against the deal Ms.
Fiorina
> has championed, according to people with knowledge of his trip.

> But industry analysts doubt if Mr. Platt, 60, would take the job or be
> offered it. After leaving Hewlett-Packard in 1999, Mr. Platt became chief
> executive of Kendall-Jackson, a California winery. Last year, he left that
> post.

Didn't Shakespeare say something like:
'Lew is the vintner of our discontent'
?:-)

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