Carly Fiorina joined Hewlett-Packard as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in July 1999. Prior to joining HP, she spent nearly 20 years at AT&T and Lucent Technologies, where she held a number of senior leadership positions in sales and marketing. As President of Lucent’s Global Service Provider Business, she spearheaded the planning and execution of its initial public offering and subsequent spin-off from AT&T.
On her watch, Hewlett-Packard announced that Linux would join Microsoft Windows and HP-UX (HP’s version of Unix) as a strategic operating system. HP also hired Bruce Perens, the onetime Debian project leader and founder of the Linux Standard Base, as an open source evangelist within HP’s Linux Business Development Organization under Martin Fink. (For more on Bruce Perens, see our interview with him in the September 2001 issue, located online at http://www.linux-mag.com/2001-09/perens_01.html.)
More recently, she has been making Page One business news with the proposed merger of HP and Compaq. Nevertheless, she took some time from her busy schedule to catch us up on HP’s Linux and open source strategies.
LINUX MAGAZINE: How has embracing Linux and open source software affected the corporate culture at HP?
CARLY FIORINA: Open Source has introduced new licensing models and a new development paradigm, which many HP teams have already embraced and are using to their advantage. We’re also working to drive Linux adoption in enterprise and ISP software development environments by creating tools…
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