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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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Nahh, there's still Gateway.
Can't you guys look into sources that don't require registration??
Screw you all! I'm off to the pub
Hewpaq Compardlett
obviously
Screw you all! I'm off to the pub
And.. Dell
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I use a HP Workstation at work that uses their 64-bit PA-RISC processors. This workstation also uses a USB keyboard and mouse. While it does seem pretty smart to move right to USB for a Unix workstation, the mouse and keyboard they provide are total crap. The keyboard is a $5 special like most companies provide with their cheapest budget computers at Wal-Mart. This is on a $40,000 workstation.
But what's really funny is how they implemented the USB interface. I had my keyboard replaced, and of course they'd only give me another one exactly like it. When the technician came to swap keyboards, he powered down the machine before removing the keyboard. I asked him why he was doing this (this workstation takes forever to boot), since USB is supposed to be hot-swap. He told me that they'd tried that before, and had destroyed several motherboards! So now that IT department has a policy of powering down workstation before changing any peripherals, even if they are supposed to be hot-swap. Apparently HP forgot to implement the hot-swapping part...
Gateway sucks becuase...
1. On March 25th 1999 they changed their entire warranty program and it resulted in the vast majority of computers being purchased with a minimal warranty that forced customers to PAY for service after 90 days / a year if they wanted support. There went 20% of the buisness
2. They went from the company that targeted the enthusiast and gamer, Only placing ads in computer magazines to targeting the first time home user from Stinkwater Alabama. Targeting these people was a mistake in it's self for any computer company. Any computer the first time users buys especially one with windows 98 or Me on it will crash almost hourly and all the problems will not be blamed on faulty ms software and 18 itmes in their startup, it will be blamed on the once good quality computer company. The companies rep's got sick of listening to Joe Bob from Stinkwater yak about his problems and stopped caring. The service went down hill and Gateway lost all it's repeat buisness, which made up about 65% of it's total sales.
3. They never diversified their products.
They tried but it never worked, they offered gimics like the ASTRO (imac rip off) and the profile (laptop on a stand), neither of which went anywhere. They got rid of their best line of computers, the Destination, which offered 36 inch moniters and wireless periferals in '96. They tried to sell servers and workstations but noone bought them because they were crap.
P.s. I just quit working for gateway after 3 1/2 years. best move I ever made
Hp and Compaq will be successful if they can trim the fat and start competing with Dell and IBM. Or else Dell will own the desktop, IBM the server and MS the software
Jerry Ford is a nice guy but he played too much football with his helmet off - LBJ
It's not the OS it's the user that sucks. If it's user friendly, you get stupider people. - clinko
Hey, this is great. Maybe HP will take a meaningless drop tomorrow. You can buy it, and then cash out when it rises back to its normal level after all the idiots realize it's not HWP. HP, unlike HWP, is not a bad stock to own. P/E 10. Crappy dividend though.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Doubling the size of the Titanic would only have caused it to sink twice as fast!
This is incorrect. Larger ships have more buoyancy, and as a result, it takes that much more volume of water to cause them to lose it. The Titanic took a long time to sink because there was a very large hull to fill up with water. Now, take a cooking pot, punch a hole in it, and see how fast it sinks. That's hardly anywhere near the size of the Titanic, yet it will sink almost immediately instead of over the course of a couple hours.
I highly recommend you watch the summer block buster Titanic, starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo Decaprio. It's a highly educated, historically accurate portrayal of this tragic event and will even reveal to you what the upper portion of a naked woman looks like.
Why bother.