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HP Buys Compaq
MaxVlast was the first to report: "The New York Times is reporting that HP is buying Compaq to form the second-largest computer company (after IBM). Wow."
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Hewlett Paqard?
...c'mon, _someone_ was gonna say it...
How will they combine PC color schemes? Rose! Pink! Disaster!
spacefem.com
IBM completes a hostile takeover attempt on the newly created Hewlett Compaq, this just 72 hours after buying Gateway outright, in a leveraged stock and options deal. Industry analysts expect that the eventual hyper-merger, to create a single corporate entity (Unicorp), will take less than 24 months at this pace. With the financial industry consolidated last week into "Unibank, the World's Favorite Bank", this editor believes that 24 months is a serious overestimate.
I hope they won't rename OSF / Digital Unix / Tru64 again!
It's 11pm, do you know what your deamons are up to?
In a shocking announcement Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates today announced that Microsoft will be purchasing Apple for undisclosed amount of 10.5 billion dollars. No word yet on the alledged dissapearance of Steve Ballmer.
Complett-Packpaq!
I work for Compaq... boy, I bet it's gonna be weird at work tomorrow...
Is this going to replace the current tagline, HP - Invent?
If this goes through watch Dell brag about moving from the number 4 spot to the number 3 spot and give the people at the very top big bonuses.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
Or maybe they'll push a low-end line of machines and call it Hewlett Compaqard Bell.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
If you could marry Taco's brains with Bill Gates' good looks.
Or did I get that backwards?
MS Visual Fortran 4 begets
Digital Visual Fortran 5 begets
Compaq Visual Fortran 6 begets
HP Visual Fortran 7?
"Open the pod by doors, Hal" > "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave" sudo "Open the pod bay doors, Hal" > alright
A match made in heaven! these two p.o.s. oems deserve each other like ike and tina
"You have the right to remain fabulous!" -Chief Clancy Wiggam
The woman is damned smart. Personally, I would have to rank her as the most intelligent, dedicated, and insightful executive in Silicon Valley. A merger of this size will take many long nights, over many years, to fully become a reality. And I think Carly Fiorina has the dedication, knowledge, and experience to do it.
Think about it. She did wonders at Lucent.
I think what is most important, what differentiates her from the other executives in the industry, is what she knows about this industry.
"Virtually all meaningful advancements in business, society, and life are not achieved through the boldy acts of a few, but the everyday acts of many."
Cut through the marketing fluff of that quote she made last year. And you see that she really does have a clue of what runs a company. What runs the whole industry. Truly, what has, and always will run this world.
Her degree is, if I remember correctly, not in information technology or business... But actually in medieval studies. What do we learn by studying history? The mistakes people have made, and hopefully we learn to not make them again.
She's a smart business person. She sees the mistakes Compaq has made with Digital and Tandem. She knows to not make those same mistakes again. And she knows that her job depends on not making any mistakes. The hp Board is patient, but they're not going to sit around for a decade, while she's pushing her sixties still trying to get hp back on track. Carly has a year at the most to prove that she can head this megaconglomerate. She knows how to streamline (see latest quarterly report).
If she can pull this off, I would have to credit her as the most successful executive in history. If not, she can move on over to Nevada and take up stripping.
Which do you think she's planning on, and working towards?
jrbd
This is like a Beowulf cluster of companies...
Sit back and relax as Windows 98 installs on your computer.
Today software, media, entertainment giant Micro-TimeWarner-AOL-Soft came to an agreement with the US justice department regarding a controversial licensing practice that they and their partner, pharmaceutical and computer hardare juggernaut, Pfizer-Hewlett Compaqard Dell had been requiring users to agree to. AOL Windows 2050 will now be available to customers who wish to pay cash money instead of exchanging whole organs, human embryos or brain tissue to obtain a license.
Bill Gates has been quoted as saying "It was unfortunate that we were forced by the government to stop innovating new ways to increase our power, er,,, our product's quality. This measure is temporary, when the our current crop of congressmen are knocking on death's door, I'm sure that our stem cell research will provide us with a few bargaining chips to get laws passed that we agree with."
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
my predictions for slashdot in 2010.
You never know, this may benefit the free software movement. Just think about it. Competent engineers sitting around at home for a couple of months with nothing better to do, and no regular income.
Malike Bamiyi wanted my assistance.
I wonder if I'll finally be taken off the Compaq spam-mail lists, or just added to all the HP ones...
For years we were trying to tell management DECs were good servers. (the bastards kept getting HPs) ... FINALLY :)
:P
DEC was purchased by CompaQ
CompaQ was purchased by HP
We <LI>are in bed with</LI> have a strategic alliance with HP.
Now we can FINALLY get DEC servers