Is Meg Whitman headed to Hewlett-Packard?

The former eBay CEO and last year's Republican candidate for governor is being considered as possibly replacing current chief executive Léo Apotheker, according to All Things Digital and Bloomberg. Several members of the board haven't been happy with Apotheker, and Whitman, currently a part-time consultant at venture firm Kleiner Perkins, is pretty much available. From ATD:

Sources said Whitman -- who has also been active with her family foundation -- has shown some interest in talking about taking the HP job. Turning to Whitman would not be not a surprise, given there are few execs in tech experienced enough to run such a large and complex organization as HP. Still, her expertise has mostly been in the consumer space and she has never run what is largely a hardware company and one with major enterprise clients. So, if appointed, Whitman would need a lot of help, especially to fix one with as many troubles as HP has seen of late.

You might recall that Apotheker joined Hewlett-Packard after Mark Hurd departed as CEO as a result of a scandal over a personal relationship with a company contractor (the exact nature of which has never been fully clarified).