Fiorina's record at HP was definitely mixed. She was forced out, and the company's performance during her tenure was well below expectations. However, the thing that really killed her was the Compaq acquisition, which years later turned out to be visionary as HP went on to become the nation's premier manufacturer of PCs, surpassing Dell. This would not have happened had the company not acquired the competencies from Compaq. So Carly can rightly claim that her strategy worked, and that in the end the HP brand (legacy) survived and Compaq's brand disappeared.