Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is going back to its roots. The company now known as HPE will be run by an engineer for the first time in almost two decades, now that Antonio Neri is succeeding Meg Whitman as chief executive officer. "The next CEO of the company needs to be a deeper technologist, and that's exactly what Antonio is," Whitman said this week on a conference call discussing the succession plan. HPE, formed in the breakup of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s corporate-computing divisions from its printer and PC business in 2015, could use an injection of the technological prowess that characterized its early years when its predecessor - famously founded in a garage in Palo Alto, Calif.