[Info-vax] Shane Robison out @ HP

[Paul Sture]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:37:03 -0400, John Smith \(who cares if I'm the one
@ HP - if here's even still there\) wrote:

> Shane Robison, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and
> Technology Officer, is responsible for shaping HP's overall corporate
> strategy and technology agenda is leaving the company on Nov. 1st.
> 
> http://www8.hp.com/us/en/company-information/executive-team/robison.html
> 
> No friend of VMS, he won't be missed.

Once described by The Register as someone you would hide the cutlery from 
if he came to visit.

Here we go, from 2002:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/08/
alphacide_yesterday_yamhill_tomorrow_hp/

"For a start, he can play the part of a tech villain from central 
casting: a vaudeville baddy so malevolent that the audience starts 
hissing as soon as he comes on stage. Kitted out like a Southern 
plantation dandy, Robison can put out a small house fire with a glare. 
And having run AT&T's research division, and endured seven years as a VP 
at Apple - again looking after research - he's clearly damn smart and 
knows how to survive and prosper in the games of executive politics. 
You'd want to hire him as an assassin… then hide all the cutlery."

...

"Robison was CTO at Compaq, so let him tell the story."


-- 
Paul Sture