Palm's newfound place back on
the map of relevance has people all sorts of excited, including one Douglas C. Jeffries. The former chief accounting officer at eBay has been appointed CFO at Palm, taking the place of the
occasionally cagey Andy Brown. Mr. Jeffries will officially be wearing his new badge in January, though Andy will stay on into the new year to ensure "a smooth transition." Ed Colligan, president and chief executive officer, stated that he was "delighted to welcome Doug Jeffries to the Palm team," noting that his "extensive financial, operational and strategic experience will contribute enormously to Palm's future success." Of course, we'd say that a
fresh OS and / or device at CES would contribute infinitely more to this strange beast called "success," but maybe we're underestimating this man's clout.
[Via
Palm InfoCenter]
posted Dec 15th 2008 6:54PM
Probably since you're Engadget, not Accounting Blog. Still, without a strong financial management and internal control, no company can succeed.
Isn't it a little premature to be declaring Palm to be relevant again when we have no idea what their new OS or hardware is going to be like?
Who?
Agreed, it don't matter how many great accountants you've got, if nobody is buying your products you won't make a penny.
tat's where ur wrong..
palm just fails at marketing and advertising..
i have just bought a palm centro, and when looked at the bang for it's buck, it's the best smartphone around
it's cheap, it has a full QWERTY keyboard and adds touch screen in a slim sexy device...
call quality is super and speakerphone is the best i have seen
Mobius, How do you think Palm has kept afloat?
@xp ehh...slim?sexy?centro? Are we talking about the same thing? I'm a proud Centro owner, all the other thing are true but sexy and slim? don't think so
5.
As a Professional i can safely say palms will be guaranteed to be FUGLY for everyone, windows mobile ftw
Professional
Fusion Fuzo
And yet half of Palm's Treo 700 series use Windows Mobile. Oh the irony...
The old CFO leaves a few days before the earnings call and a few weeks before the next Next Great Thing is theoretically revealed and is replaced by a new "CFO" who last worked as a CFO apparently a year and a half ago and then only for 6 weeks. It's not clear when the new CFO left Ebay though it looks like it was at the same time he joined that energy company.
Since it takes quite a bit of time to recruit executive management this departure of Palm's old CFO has been in the works for quite some time.
So why is the CFO leaving NOW rather than after the Big Event?
And why did the Chattermail guys leave yesterday?
What IS going on inside Palm?
Anyone else of note leaving/left?
my picture is not showing or is it?
I can't be a palm fanatic because I gave all my fanboy points to Sun Microsystems. Still, I hope they end up on their feet, never struck me as bad products, just a bit out of sync.
Boo f****ing hoo!
I like the old camry next the bmw
Even rats know to leave a sinking ship.
Golden parachutes AWAY!!!!!
Too little, too late.
why is this company still in business. with blackberrys and iphones who needs palm? seriously.
I think actualy they're doing fine. Look at the photo and you can see at least 2 german cars:
- BMW
- Audi
:-)
Hopefully they do it right on CES 2009 and introduce a powerful product with good(!) build quality. Not the usual crappy shit from the last 2 years (cracking Treos etc.)