Oracle CEO 'Speechless' About HP's New Hire

[JMcEntegart]

Last week, HP made headlines when it appointed former SAP CEO Leo Apotheker its new CEO. Since then, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has been pretty vocal about his feelings on HP's decision to hire the former chief of an Oracle rival.

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[bhaberle]

HP has been going down the crapper lately in terms of decision making so nothing they do surprises me now.

 

[Jung]

Seems like they hired someone who wont rape the company and employees for short term gain. We'll see.

 

[ta152h]

Part of me finds a CEO acting so common disappointing and undignified, another part of me loves the fact he says it like it is, without making even the slightest attempt to soften his attacks.

 

[TeKEffect]

The HP board is a special group and not the good special.

 

[Darkerson]

One good turn deserves another /sarcasm

 

[guitarpeggio]

All of these rich bastards are the same. Do not care.

 

[frostyfireball]

I'm sure they see something in the guy, it just might not be obvious to us.

 

[smeker]

[citation][nom]guitarpeggio[/nom]All of these rich bastards are the same. Do not care.[/citation]
Yep pretty much, money talks

 

[gsacks]

Larry Ellison is a pompous ass. Very successful businessman but with a serious inferiority complex. Back well Bill Gates was being ruthless and more successful than Ellison, he was the target of Ellison's wrath. Ellison helped fuel the 'Bill Gates is evil and bad for the software industry' movement. Now that BG is retired and being all philanthropic, Larry needs a new target. It would have been Sun, but he went and bought them, so he has wildly lashed out at the next closest target, HP. I'm not saying that HP is great or anything. Just that Ellison always seems to be on the offensive against someone. ---- Oh, and he is killing all of Sun's open source initiatives, so he is a double super ass with a cherry on top.

 

[beachbod]

Part of me wants to be on HPs side but its kind of hard when an ink cartridge costs an arm and a leg.

 

[zerapio]

And now we're going to take HP's sloppy seconds and have her run the state. I can see how that will end.

 

[dEAne]

He looks like the guy from the Greek mythology. He is good.

 

[goodsyntax]

Ellison is a pompous ass, but I find it refreshing that a person in the spotlight can speak his mind instead of playing the politically correct, don't offend anyone tactic of speaking without actually saying anything of substance.

If you filter out the childish notes, you can see a very valid point. Apotheker has run SAP into the ground. A few years back, SAP was the dominant force, but since Apotheker ran the show, SAP has lost market share and more importantly, mind share. PeopleSoft, Oracle and others have steadily grown while SAP has shrunk.

At this time HP needs a visionary. Their products are growing stale and they have not released any truly innovative products in years. Instead of innovating and being the first to market with server blades, low power servers, unified threat appliances, unified communication appliances, etc., they essentially clone the ideas of the market leaders. There was a time when HP printers were innovative, indestructible, and feature rich, now they are commodity pieces with no differentiators. Same goes for their PCs, servers and other devices.

 

[zak_mckraken]

Oracle CEO 'Speechless' About HP's New Hire

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has been pretty vocal

Contradict much? Maybe the guy is bipolar.

 

[eyemaster]

For the past 15 years, HP has been going downhill but yet staying in the same spot. Blunder after blunder, yet still not close to closing their doors.

 

[theroguex]

Wait. How do HP's board members have little company stock? Don't you have to own a large percentage of stock in order to be on the board?

 

[theoutbound]

When did nerd fights turn into "Oh no they didn't"? Settle this over D&D like men.

 

[Guest]

He sure does talk a lot for someone who's `speechless`.

 

[Jung]

He's just pissed they gave his corrupt buddy the boot.

 

[Darkv1]

[citation][nom]theoutbound[/nom]When did nerd fights turn into "Oh no they didn't"? Settle this over D&D like men.[/citation]
Bring out the the D20's.

 

[mikem_90]

All of these idiots are a bunch of pompous asses.

Larry got into a hissy fit over the city of San Jose not wanting him landing his private jet during curfew, killed many open source commitments...

HP has been plagued by bad decisions, stagnant products...

Steve has been.... well. He's been Steeve Jobs.

How about we let them all battle it out fisticuffs style?

 

[Enkidu98]

I got divorced from HP in 2006. I had enjoyed a nice run there. Just recently I found out the names of people who remained in the company from another ex-HPite.

It is not at all a wonder that HP appears to be floundering and continuing to make poor decisions at every level. I've moved on making about twice what I did while at HP and HP's retained 'Talent' were the folks who never were able to perform their positions adequately let alone exceptionally.

HP Management and Culture was destroyed with the Agilent split. Its boards incessant need to 'me too' and follow blindly into the business trend du our has led it down countless stalled paths and bad decisions.

Acquiring EDS, and now using the EDS business model to continue to rape our nations taxpayers for the privilege of continuing to completely f--- up our nations military IT infrastructure is unconscionable. If Carly hadn't already had killed Bill, the paths it has followed would have broken the mans spirit many times over.

HP's Board continues to do a disservice to its shareholders, its customers and its employees with every meeting. Eventually inertia will peter out and they will find they are ill positioned to continue to compete and that their size is not the advantage they thought it was as they kept looking only three months into the future.