Former HP VP charged with stealing IBM trade secrets
By Nilay Patel 
posted Jul 3rd 2008 2:02AM
posted Jul 3rd 2008 2:02AM
The printer market isn't exactly full of the most interesting news, but it's still big money, and big money tends to bring out the worst in people -- like former HP VP Atul Malhotra, who was just charged with stealing trade secrets from his former employer IBM and emailing them to other HP execs. Apparently Malhotra requested some confidential sales data two months before he went from the three-letter company to the two-letter one, and when he got there he hit up some other senior execs with the files -- marking the subject line "For Your Eyes Only." Yeah, that's an effective way to keep a lid on things. Malhotra was fired from HP in 2006, so all this went down some time ago, and HP says it actually conducted an internal investigation about the matter before firing Malhotra and reporting the theft to both IBM and the authorities. Sure, sure -- but we'll know what's up when the next HP AIO is running a Cell chip.
Charge $20 for the printer, and $75 for the ink.
So what's the secret?
u stole my 1st post
1st!
Geez Nilay, how late are you working?
ya, I meant to do that
You're not first. You're not funny . Get off my Internetz!
People who post "first!" make me sick...Is everyone who does that still breast feeding? hmmm? Comment on the story please.
Almost had a brain hemmorage trying to make sense of this.
"Apparently Malhotra requested some confidential sales data two months before he went from the two-letter company to the three-letter one, and when he got there he hit up some other senior execs with the files"
Should this not be from the three-letter company to the two-letter company?
Yeah they messed up.
Yeah, I noticed this mistake too. But, is there a more polite way to inform the poster rather than making a note in the comments section?
"Apparently Malhotra requested some confidential sales data two months before he went from the three-letter company to the two-letter one"
unless they corrected it after ur post; it was right all along...
mmm..."intersting"...
Seriously what was there to steal? If HP execs want to steal from IBM, thats a dirty way of doing business. But* most do not realize many companies engage in these sort of things, like it or not, we just don't know about it. They could have done worse and poured printer ink all over his face for his treachery.... :P
Really! I can't believe it! I'm shocked that they would do this! In a world of perfect law abiding people?
(sarcasm is great)
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03004c/businesscenter/smb/us/en/printer
I found surprising was they do printers. I remember them spinning off their Lexmark thing, but beyond that they weren't the first on my mind when it comes to printers. These days I think of IBM as services and PowerPC.