Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
Cara Carleton "Carly" Fiorinais an American businessperson and political candidate. Fiorina is known primarily for her tenure as the Chief Executive Officerof Hewlett-Packard...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 September 1954
CityAustin, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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We turned in very strong performance in our UNIX business. We now have a superb product lineup with more in the pipeline.
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These results demonstrate that we are winning and growing across the portfolio in an intensely competitive market,
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We had planned for single-digit growth in our PC business in the U.S.; we had planned for that in U.S. retail, ... Nevertheless, we did indicate that we saw less growth than anticipated even with that single-digit forecast. It is a relatively small part of our portfolio and it does not change our forecast.
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We do not see any meaningful improvement in IT spending, and we are not counting on a strong holiday buying season, ... We still have a lot of work to do. But the results today validate and demonstrate our progress towards our goals of meeting and exceeding all of our integration targets.
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The third quarter is always tough, but we still should have done better,
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Technology is changing so fast, that to bet a business on a proprietary technology, or on a single technology, commits an IT environment to becoming a legacy environment.
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Completion of the FTC review marks a major milestone in the approval process, and we are now focused on winning the shareowner vote,
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Today's results demonstrate the tremendous progress we're making in all of our businesses around the world.
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We're clearly not seeing any recovery in 2001, and I think we're talking a recovery in the second half of 2002, ... And I think the recovery will be limited.
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We're also beginning to see demand for our notebooks in Japan, which has been an untapped market for us so far.
I think reinvention for all of us is not a nice-to-do, it's a got-to-do
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It doesn't make sense to get out of that business. It's an important part of the solutions bundle. But don't think we didn't look at it (getting out of PC sales) carefully. We did.
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It allows us to fix our PC business, ... If I didn't care about laying off people I could just shut it down. If I shut it down, I'd lay off a lot more than 15,000 people across two companies over several years.
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I would describe the economy as stable. We're not yet ready to say it's coming back, but it does appear to be stabilizing.