Yeah it did.. AFTER Fiorina left. Just before she left, HP was sucking worse than Dell and IBM.
Sun is a non sequitur - they weren't in the same market.
Sun is a non sequitur - they weren't in the same market.
Even HP’s new CEO gave Fiorina the credit for making the hard changes that set the stage for the HP come back
SUN was trying to make the transition but they failed because they were blindsided by the rapid market shift to a commoditized, consumer electronics business.
Rapid advancements in CPU power, storage capacity , network speed and bandwidth enabled very fast user-friendly, self configuring systems that undercut SUNs market strengths in the high end desktop market and Sun's cost structure was way too high to make them competitive.
SUN got killed because nobody was willing to SUN prices when a PC could do the job at a fraction of the cost.
Ironically, low cost, very high powered PCs did to Sun what Sun did to Digital Equipment and IBM 20 years earlier
I would also add that some of her ‘success’ was due to ‘Right-Shoring’. As Fiorina said in 2004, “there is no job that is America’s God-given right anymore” calling what is generally referred to as ‘offshoring,’ as “right-shoring.” Not to mention possible HP ‘profits’ from proxy Iran sales.