Champagne Wishes and Picasso Dreams: HP Gets Decadent
Excuse me, no take-home lapdogs? You call this a party?!
Thursday night Hewlett-Packard (HWP Quote) surpassed putting on the Ritz. President and CEO of Enterprise Computing, Ann Livermore beckoned a manageable throng of several hundred Internet startup partners, press, analysts and H-P family to join her at the Chiltern Mansion in Hillsborough, just south of San Francisco in, well, mansion territory.
We were to enjoy "An Evening With Picasso." Pooh-pooh the Ask Jeeves (ASKJ Quote) people launching Ask Jeeves 4.0 at a simultaneous party with crooner Elvis Costello. These were Picasso paintings, sculptures and sketches that had never touched the godless, MTVified soil of the U.S. They were from the old world, untainted by corporate American greed. And so they came with two polite men to protect them, in this leased den of ... it seems, corporate America. ...
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