Instead of headquartering the company in a downtown Houston skyscraper, Canion chose a West Coast-style campus surrounded by forests, where every employee had similar offices and no-one (not even the CEO) had a reserved parking spot.

"[6] Canion declined an offer to remain on Compaq's board[9] and was bitter about his ouster as he didn't speak to Rosen for years, although their relationship became cordial again.

Two weeks after Canion's ouster, five other senior executives resigned, including remaining company founder James Harris as SVP of Engineering.

These departures were motivated by an enhanced severance or early retirement, as well as an imminent demotion as their functions were to be shifted to vice presidents.

[10] In 1992, Canion founded Insource Technology Group with Jim Harris and Ronald L. Fischer and served as its chairman until September 2006.