> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Ryan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5051569.html
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Hmmm... while everyone is focused on how hot the ink is, did anyone else catch the line

   "All the while, Fiorina is going about the refashioning of HP's company culture, a process that picked up steam with the Compaq merger. Her ambition: accelerate the corporate metabolism while still retaining the positive legacy embodied in the famed "HP Way." "

The phrase "accellerate the corporate metabolism" really caught my eye -- doesn't metabolism indicate how fast an entity burns fuel and produce waste?

Further down, there is a serious "ouch" line -- too bad it couldn't apply to our favorite...

[CF]   ...(Dell's) a great company, but what they're trying to do now is not going to be as easy as what they've done for the last five years. And what they've done for the last five years is tune to perfection a single way of doing business around a relatively narrow product line. 

[cnet] But why does that narrow a product line sell? 
[CF]   Because they do a good job at it. 

Taken the other way, it could be seen as admission that HP doesn't know beans about selling "a narrow product line" :)

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