Talk:Michael Capellas
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Hi, I made some massive cuts because a lot of this article was massively POV and certainly unverifiable. Unless someone can show me a source documenting the internal motivation of this guy in high school 30 years ago, I think it needs to stay out. This article really had the tone of a promotional brochure or a vanity page. We should stick to verifiable facts. --Deville (Talk) 18:01, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
It is nonetheless significant that Capellas moved from CIO to CEO. This is something that rarely happens and represents something of a success for the idea of Information Technology as a good career. Several things should be brought to bear:
1. Compaq was very much an I.T. oriented company. In other words, a CIO makes a good CEO because the target customer of the Compaq was CIOs
2. That Capellas was more successful than his predecessor has been vindication to technical types who feel that technical subject matter expertise the measure of a good IT executives
3. That Capellas was successful as the President should also to technical types of the importance for technical types to understand the business of their business and to run IT from that perspective.
