Hewlett Packard Enterprise CTO, CCO to call it a day Martin Fink, the chief techie straddling Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s global Labs is quitting just as the prototype of his most ambitions project to date, The Machine, edges closer. In a blog note today, CEO Meg Whitman confirmed the CTO will be “retiring” at the end of the year after more than three decades at the company. “ …
HP is is continuous reorganization mode.
To her credit, Whitman is probably doing a better job than the prior leaders, but it's too little too late.
Pissed off customers
Pissed off channel
Lack of effective and relevant R&D
Lack of strategy.
Smells like a death spiral to me.
I remember when Martin joined HP in the mid eighties. He started off as a Customer Engineer at the HP Ottawa office. Nice fellow and was always willing to help. He was brilliant and an exceptional speaker. He taught a HP-UX course I attended - 3.0 back then !. He went a long way at HP, too bad HP's Memristor technology hasn't panned out.
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