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HP/Compaq Merger Apparently Approved

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gobble-gobble-gobble dept.

Spinality writes "Looks like HP's hotly contested merger with Compaq is going ahead. Various news headlines such as this one at Bloomberg.com report that stockholders voted to merge, against the wishes of the Hewlett and Packard families. " There isn't official word yet, but this looks like it's pretty much a done deal. Anyone else think the business world looks like a game of Pac Man?

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  1. I'll believe it... by AlexDeGruven · · Score: 4, Funny
    When I finally see it. There has been so much speculation about this, and rumours about that, a little bit of leak here, and a little assumption there.

    When I finally see an announcement that it's happened and start seeing some Hewlett PackPaq(tm) boxes on the shelves, then we can start talking.

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  2. Announcement by Fucky+the+troll · · Score: 1, Funny

    The Compaq/HP/Gateway/Dell/AOL-Time-Warner vs. Microsoft court cases that appear will be given the new name "World War 3". Thanks for listening.

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  3. And in other news.. by A_Non_Moose · · Score: 3, Funny

    In addition to the Compaq merger, HP also plans to merge with Intel and UPS.

    No comment was give to queries if the resulting company would be called Hic-UPS.

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    1. Re:And in other news.. by JordanH · · Score: 2, Funny
      Reminds me of a joke I heard was going around NCR when AT&T was buying them up.

      I heard someone posted a corporate logo for the new combined NCR/AT&T as a joke at NCR Headquarters. The logo was a combination of the AT&T Deathstar and the NCR logo (which nobody here probably recognizes). Under it was written the new name for the company:

      CRAP - Cash Registers And Phones

  4. Oh no! Emachines! by mekkab · · Score: 2, Funny

    I bet they've got Emachine's quaking in their boots! (and smoking out their power supply's...)

    I guess there's always room for America's Choice Computers (available at your local safeway supermarket)

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  5. The final results. by Decimal · · Score: 5, Funny

    45% For
    44% Against
    11% Buchanan

    Damn that butterfly ballot!

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