"Whitman defended her record at the helm of EBay.
"I have run a large company -- not obviously as large as HP, but I have run a very large company," she said. "While I don't have years of experience in an enterprise business, I bought a lot of software. I was one of the largest enterprise customers in Silicon Valley."
"That's like saying, 'I've bought an iPhone, so I can run Apple Inc. (AAPL)" said Whitmore at Deutsche Bank."
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I don't know much about Meg, but I think Whitmore's statement is pretty asinine. eBay was (and is) big enough that HP doesn't sell anything that scales to their application.
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