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

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Here is a chronology of the 2 companies

http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010904/17/hp-compaq-chronology



At 11:15 AM 9/5/2001 -0500, you wrote:

>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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