Ed Iacobucci outflanks Carly Fiorina

TO FIORINA or to Iacobucci? That is the question, and those are the two verbs we've decided to invent on the spur of the moment. Or to deconstruct and reconstruct on a second by second basis, as others might put it.

We understand that Carly F was just about to buy another couple of Learjets for the HP fleet when she decided to leave the firm to spend more time with her family.

Iacobucci, cig-smoking Argentinian "father of OS/2" has been out of the IT loop since Citrix - which he founded - decided it could dispense with his services as the hairman. Because of that foolish, foolish move, Citrix has turned into possibly, no, certainly, the most boring IT company in the universe.

Ed outflanked Bill Gates easily in his Citrix days, so outflanking Carly is a piece of cake, no?

Now, the New York Times has revealed that Iacobucci has high flying ideas indeed.

His new firm is Dayjet and according to the New York Times it has ordered 239 Eclipse 500 jets at $1.3 million a throw, and taken an option on 70 more.

The reporter on the Times, who doesn't seem to be spending any time in an orange jumpsuit, said he "has spent hours" listening to Ed explain Dayjet's business model. Ed has come up with a set of algorithms which match large numbers of passengers with an "infinite number of routes". It quotes him as saying that it's all about deconstructing and reconstructing the operations plan on a second by second basis.

Sheesh kebab! Ed is famous for a lot of things but deconstructing and reconstructing an operations plan on a second by second basis only happened to him once, when we there, and after he'd just left a plane at Heathrow and we said it was OK to smoke now. He lit up, and a machine gun toting Britcop said put that out. Sure enough, Ed did. No doubt his planes are no smoking planes too in these reconstructed days. µ

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