Rick Beluzzo is a total incompetent. He could just about manage when he was Head Ink Boy at HP, because there was practically no competition and HP had a huge stranglehold on the printer market.
His incompetence almost totally destroyed SGI. Even after he sucked up to MS by selling key SGI patents to them, thus paving the way for his role in the Interactive Units division, he still couldn't hold that position for more than a few years before getting kicked out - he is *that* hopeless.
He has repeated his 'success' at Silicon Graphics with Quantum, by the exact same methods - incompetent management, total lack of understanding of the corporate culture, the technology the company creates, and it's clients and their needs.
I cannot think of any senior technology industry figure who would be more suited to washing the floors at McDonalds than Golden Rick. The only time I would ever recommend him to a CEO position would be to my competitor, when I wanted to see them utterly destroyed.
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April 30, 2008
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