The perpetual dramastorm at Yahoo! continues with the recent announcement that the firm has selected Carol Bartz of Autodesk as the next CEO.

Though criticisms for having little to no web experience have already been leveld at her, Bartz has been quick to play hardball with pundits. “Let’s not put ourselves in some crazy timeline. Let’s give this company some frigging breathing room. Everybody on the outside deciding what Yahoo should or shouldn’t do–that’s going to stop,” she said during her first financial meeting.

A fourteen year veteran of Autodesk, the company behind AutoCAD, she proved resourceful and unifying. She reigned longer than any other executive of the firm run by what is described as a “theocracy of hackers.” She accomplished this impressive feat by working to ease tension between the business and technical groups that, not long ago, would have sooner murdered the other. In 2008 Autodesk completed its first-ever to-do list complete with deadlines and responsibility assignments, a herculean achievement accredited to Bartz’s management expertise.

Previously an employee of Sun Microsystems, DEC and 3M, she arrives with business acumen and experience in an impressive array of historic companies.  Regarding her experience in this space, she cites her capacity to learn. “I didn’t know CAD (computer-aided design) when I joined Autodesk, I didn’t know hardware when I joined Sun,” she said. “I have brain power to understand what it takes.”