[geeks] Woah. HP buys Compaq.

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:47:08AM -0600, Wes wrote:
> I'm rather frightened by this merger. I work technical support for gateway
> and the same company I work for also was a HP outsourcer for their Pavilion
> line. I have a compaq Deskpro 6000, which is a horrible POS. It's does all
> sorts of bizarre stuff. So...you've got two computer manufacturers that make
> rather shotty desktop systems, but decent enough servers. I'm frightened.
> The tech support world is going to get even shittier.

I'm guessing that HP's PC division will cease to exist, and the "Compaq"
side of things will sell PC servers.. while Compaq/DEC has already killed
off the Alpha; the server/workstation line will be PA-RISC/IA64.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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