How Mike Capellas was "castrated" by Carly

AN ARTICLE in today's Wall Street Journal has extracts from a book by one of its reporters who tracked the merger of HP and Compaq. And in it, he said that Carly Fiorina codenamed her firm Heloise and Capellas' firm Abelard.

The article continues, Carly did not tell Capellas that the sad love affair between Heloise and Abelard ended up with the man in the affair being castrated.

That, according to extracts published in the WSJ today, was not a fact that was known to Capellas until Autumn 2002. The author of the book said that when Capellas found out he shuddered and said: "I'm glad I didn't know".

Which just goes to show that if you're a CEO of a multinational corporation it pays to be well read as well as filthy rich.

The article goes on to say that Capellas thought he would be CEO of the joint company, but behind his back HP staff were laughing at the possibility.

Presumably Carly did know about the mediaeval story of Heloise and Abelard...

If she is Heloise, then she is in a virtual convent at Arguentil and they will meet again in nine years time. But there won't be any champagne next time round, we guess.

The book is called Perfect Enough: Carly Fiorina and the Reinvention of Hewlett-Packard by George Anders. µ

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Heloise and Abelard After Abelard was castrated, he became a troubador at worldcom, right?
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