Nope. From what i heard from VMWare he was just a bad manager. He seems to be just a person skillfully playing org game, yet when it came to deliver he just flopped.

The struggling companies with totally rotten management like to bring such "stars" (pretty shrewd people who built themselves a public image of supposedly talented engineers who got promoted into higher management on their merits) - Yahoo/Meyers come to mind as another example - who de-facto finish the destruction of the company while management rides the gravy train.