And again and again, MCI CEO Michael Capellas Michael Capellas has given Qwest the cold shoulder.
The company said in a statement that it would not replace Capellas with another president.
And again and again, MCI CEO Michael Capellas has given Qwest the cold shoulder.
But she says the trend exemplified by Capellas will not soon become a stampede.
Neither man, nor any other available telecom executive, is as famous as Capellas, though.
WorldCom, forswearing every executive in its industry, seems poised to hire HP's Michael Capellas.
Capellas acknowledges Compaq has a problem here, and he lays blame on its distribution system.
"The idea of a configure-to-order PC will be an oxymoron in a few years, " Capellas says.
In a statement, HP's Fiorina said Capellas is leaving as the merged company meets its integration milestones.
Mr Capellas must declare an explicit dividend policy, which he can change only with the consent of shareholders.
Without Capellas, the HP head will have the lone spotlight during next week's earnings and December's analyst meeting.
"I believe that the market for simpler Internet access devices is going to be a freight train, " Capellas says.
The pri-ority now for Capellas is to convince the world MCI is squeaky-clean.
"I would be intellectually dishonest if I said it wasn't one of the considerations I was looking at, " Capellas says.
Capellas had been Compaq's chief information officer when he was tapped for the top spot--and CIOs typically have not become CEOs.
Running that is Michael Capellas, who has run Compaq, HP and MCI, and has been on the Cisco board for seven years.
Capellas leaves HP (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) six months after the company's merger with Compaq Computer.
It's possible that MCI CEO Michael Capellas never even took Qwest's negotiations seriously and was simply using them to entice Verizon.
But Capellas "is a chief technology officer at heart, " says Vinton Cerf, MCI's technology chief and an early designer of the Internet.
Capellas said one possible device for such continuous computing would be similar to today's mobile phone with extra buttons for nontelephony functionality.
Capellas would no doubt walk into a company with a demoralized workforce.
"We will have to have some form of international standards, " Capellas suggested.
Knowledge about a company's customers will be an important asset that will allow businesses to cross-sell and up-sell products and services, Capellas said.
Notebaert has given MCI until Monday to respond to the offer, but it's unlikely MCI CEO Michael Capellas will change his mind.
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First Data is run by Michael Capellas, the quirky former chief executive of computer maker Compaq and telecom outfit MCI in its post-WorldCom incarnation.
Capellas' leaving may be construed as negative, but it's questionable whether he held the recipe to the secret sauce to make HP more competitive.
Industry analysts expect Capellas eventually to go one step further and launch a new brand and payment network that competes head-to-head with Visa and MasterCard.
And, Capellas claims, technology and sales teams that can break apart the infrastructure so that customers can install parts from other suppliers if they want.
Mr Breeden says that Mr Capellas has embraced his ideas enthusiastically.
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