H-P Chief Exec. Decries Proprietary Technology.(Hewlett-Packard's Carly Fiorina)(Brief Article)

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, November, 2000 by TREMBLY, ARA C.

In pointed remarks that could just as easily have been aimed at the insurance industry instead of the business technology community at large, Hewlett-Packard's chief executive officer, Carly Fiorina, criticized developers of proprietary systems, characterizing their work as "medieval." The remarks came in a keynote address here at Comdex Fall 2000, the mammoth national computer show and conference.

Ms. Fiorina told an audience of several thousand that she believes we are currently at the beginning of a "digital renaissance." She cautioned, however, that while the computer industry "believes it can outrun history," a renaissance is not triggered by a few leaders, "but by the everyday acts of many." History's "Renaissance period" ended "because of dogmatic,...

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