Quote:She was basically fired because of her incompetent handling of the business, including the disastrous merger with Compaq. But hold on, wait wait wait. We won't blame Fiorina for the downfall of HP because the dot-com bubble popped, but we will blame Donald Trump on his Atlantic City casinos when Atlantic City crashed? Fantastic.

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"You look back now, and Carly was right—there was a lot of synergy between the two companies. The merger worked out well in retrospect." —Tommy Wald, CEO of White Glove Technologies
"In retrospect, yes, it was a good move for HP and for the partner community. I was wrong, and I'm glad they proved me wrong." —Don Richie, CEO of Sequel Data Systems
"I think it was a fantastic move. I thought it was a fantastic move at the time, too. HP would definitely not be where it is today without Compaq." —Geoffrey Lilien, president of Lilien Systems
"The merger turned out to be a good thing ... There were some administrative headaches, of course, but overall they did a very good job with the integration." —Jane Cage, COO of Heartland Technology Solutions