How much did Carly Fiorina make at HP and was it worth it?

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Alby_da_Wolf said:
Wasn't she the one that fell for Intel's Itanium bluff and killed Alpha, despite the latter actually being cheaper and more powerful?

I believe that colossal screw-up was largely in place before Fiorina got there.  You might be thinking of HP's PA-RISC architecture, which was on a par with DEC Alpha and completely abandoned to partner with Intel on Itanium.  By the time Carly acquired Compaq (which had bought DEC and didn't know what to do with it), Alpha was already doomed.  As for HP's part in this blunder, I'd place the blame largely on the infamous Rick Belluzzo:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=belluzzo