Fiorina encountered some resistance from employees as she updated the “HP Way” of working—a traditional, consensus-based system that she felt had become slow and bureaucratic. Her plan to merge HP, then the second largest computer company in the United States, with Compaq Computer Corporation, then the third largest, was contested by Walter Hewlett and David Packard, the sons of HP’s cofounders. Fiorina prevailed, however, winning the support of shareholders by a slim margin of 51.4 percent of the votes cast. In 2002 the two firms merged, retaining the Hewlett-Packard name. The deal, however, failed to generate the expected profits, and in 2005 Fiorina was forced to resign as CEO.