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Tom Perkins had every reason to be satisfied. Tom Perkins is steinreich, and his professional life is fulfilled, since his career manager at Hewlett-Packard (HP) has begun. Tom Perkins sat and sits on several boards of directors, including Rupert Murdoch News Corp.. especially with HP itself. Tom Perkins has mansions in the U.S. and Europe. Tom Perkins was with the kitsch author Danielle Steel married and recently published his first novel ( "Sex and the Single Zillionaire"), on whose cover is a beauty to the bow of a yacht räkelt. He himself has recently been one of the world's largest yachts - the "Maltese Falcon", 88 meters long.

But there are things that the 74-year-old multi-millionaire vergällen the sweet life. Some operations on the board of the computer company HP, for example. In May he took office for them down the Board. And now, after four months of silence, he brings his reasons to the public: Tom Perkins has his ex-colleagues in the committee a letter, quite shaken Silicon Valley. Because Perkins is hardly a good hair in the group, which made him so rich.
"Illegal practices", "fraudulent methods" and "questionable ethics" - these are just three of the many allegations, the Perkins in his letter raises. The fire letter brings the largest scandal in the history of HP to light. He turns to envy and suspicion, resentment and revenge, a business such as personal vendetta.

It began 2005 with the overthrow of the Board boss Carly Fiorina by the Board of Directors - and could now, irony of fate, to overthrow the Board boss Patty Dunn. The end of the scandal but would probably not yet, on the contrary: Even now must also Fiorinas successor, Mark Hurd unpleasant questions like.
What Hurd knew? What has he endorsed what is not? How can he wankenden group of the affair almost destroyed, back to the rest? "He is faced with difficult issues," writes the Wall Street Journal "and noted that Hurd operations of the group to meet, has not -" but not stopped ".
What happened? In February 2005 announced the HP Board contract with the Board boss Fiorina, among other things because the missratenen merger of HP and Compaq three years ago. Many details about the Rausschmiss and the following changes in the group then seep through to the press - and HP are preparing an enormous image problem. The new Board of Directors Decides boss Dunn, the leak in their own home track. My suspicion is directed against its own Board of Directors - because of its deliberations must always read in the newspaper.

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