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How many Fortune 25 companies does it take to change a light bulb?

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:00:22 +0000

I’m working right now for a Fortune 25 company. This story is going to sound like bragging, so I’ll ask forgiveness in advance. Maybe if I mention I’m a contractor, then it’s not bragging quite so bad. Well, said Fortune

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The stunning fall of Mark Hurd

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:39:50 +0000

I didn't believe it when the news broke late Friday that Mark Hurd, CEO of Hewlett-Packard, had suddenly resigned under fire.

Hurd wasn't flamboyant or a quote machine like many technology CEOs. He just steadily turned HP around, increasing profits, passing Dell in sales of PCs and IBM in sales of servers, and buying companies like EDS and 3Com. He was exactly what investors liked.

In the following days, it turned out there was more to the story.

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Buy, don\’t build, enterprise servers

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 07 Feb 2004 16:23:46 +0000

Steve sent me some questionable advice he found online--basically, someone advocating that you build your high-end servers rather than buying them, but admitting that it's difficult for someone to build a $20,000 server and still be able to afford to maintain the thing.

There's a solution: Buy it.

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