. . . . Ms. Whitman—a Silicon Valley veteran who turned eBay Inc. from a quirky start-up into an online auction giant—remains an influential figure in the technology scene as an H-P director and an adviser to a leading venture-capital firm. But the former eBay CEO also has little background in the hardware industry, never ran a company of H-P's size, made some missteps at eBay, . . .
So what? She's a lot better than the inept Leo Apotheker who I've written about here and here. Meg can calm a chaotic situation and bring some sanity to the technology giant. Meg may not be an aircraft carrier like Steve Jobs--but I think she will fool a lot of people and do just fine--and I wish her and HP the best!
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