joining us is cory johnson, jayson noland, and crawford del prete from boston. i start with you.as meg whitman been good or bad for hp? >> given the situation meg walked into, she has done an excellent job of steadying the ship, structuring things in a way that needed to be structured. she gets very little credit for changing the relationship with the channel. she incented the channel in a way they needed to be incented. >> what do you think? good or bad? >> i agree, meg has been good for this company. she offered stability to the employee base, to the company, to the channel. this is the next step in her big comeback with hp. it is not over yet. there are going to be concerns with customers, employees, and partners with the split of hp inc. and hewlett-packard enterprise. the job is not done. but she is doing a good job. >> at ebay, she was all about consumers. at hp, focusing both on enterprise and consumer. now she is focusing exclusively on enterprise. what do you see her future running this enterprise business? >> they have a point about things they do behind the scenes to k

coryawford del prete, johnson at hp headquarters, and jayson noland, thank you all.e continue to cover this story after a quick break. how will the decision to split impact meg's pay? that and more when "bloomberg west," returns. ♪ >> welcome back to "bloomberg west." i'm emily chang. today we follow the separation of 75-year-old hewlett-packard into two different companies. run theman will corporate software and hardware focused hp enterprise, and he dion weisler becomes ceo of hp inc. restructuring costs boom. how these plans impact executive pay? cory johnson is in palo alto. cory, what does this mean for what they get in the bank? >> fundamentally, it could mean more money. we take a look at how this works. i prepared this piece before the news today. as the restructuring is longer, as layoffs get bigger, it is possible that some executive pay packages get even bigger. check it out. hewlett-packard announced its one-timer structuring might take more time, with more costs and more layoffs. it could all help ceo meg whitman make more. the restructuring costs estima