RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] News Alert from NYTimes.com: Hewlett-Pack ard to Buy Compaq (fwd)

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Sorry, this was the first I had heard of who bought DEC.  All I heard was
that they had been bought, and I shed my tear for yet another good corp
being swallowed up by bigger, but not better corps.  Compaq already had a
rep for being among the better server people, and as far as I know, HP has
never had much of a standing in it.  This leads me to believe that HP will
probably continue its rein in the Wal-Mart quality PC world, and let it's
Compaq half be the server producers.  I doubt they will give up their ideas
of proprietary hardware any time soon, as both companies have been accused
of this atrocity one time or another.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan King [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 11:16 AM
To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] News Alert from NYTimes.com:
Hewlett-Pack ard to Buy Compaq (fwd)



On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Ross, Matt wrote:

> Compaqs are still as worthless as ever. My friends who have the modern
> versions complain of the same problems I have with my 5 year old model.
> HP's I've never liked, but mostly because of their packaging.  HP isn't as
> well known for good computers as they are for good peripherals, but with
the
> aquisition of DEC, they'd have to have worked hard not to be good
> competition for IBM and Sun.

Um, actually it was Compaq that acquired Tandem and DEC.  Some have argued
that their major problem in life was acquiring DEC, a company that had a
legendary history and an impressive reach throughout corporate
America...but which had been losing serious money for a long, long time.
Their masterstroke was trying to move from VMS on Alpha to NT on Alpha.
Words fail me.

jking

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