Update on HP decision on the PC business

I wrote a post, a few days ago, about what may be involved in the decision to change.  I read another view in an article that ascribed the decision as being made by the board when they hired the new CEO from SAP.  They brought in a CEO that knows the software and service business without any manufacturing or hardware history.  Of course he was comfortable with what he knew.  Why not try to reform the company into the next SAP.  People do what they know.

Looking at the pc business decision this way removes all of the profit, and business thoughts I wrote on early and assigns it to just people.  Now I am not sure, the CEO based decision seems more probable.

By the way, Nokia is in the middle of the same type of CEO driven change.  When their board selected a past microsoft executive to run Nokia, his first decision was to stop all programming services and go with Microsoft to provide the operating system.

It is reasons like this that companies promote CEOs from within, like Apple just did.  Inside to stay on the same path, from outside if they want a change.