[rescue] This Just In: HP to buy Compaq

[Mike Free]

could I speculate....that HP has bought compaq to attain the alpha program;
and so they can dump their line of home PC's to concentrate on server apps
to go up against IBM while compaq is kept around to handle the home PC
market....

Mike Free

----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Jennings" <will at mooi.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] This Just In: HP to buy Compaq


> HP makes good servers... DAMN good servers, I sell 'em, and despite being
> certified to repair most every model, the total number of times I've ever
> had to repair any HP NetServer is, well, zero... Hell, the company server
is
> a NetServer 5/100 (Pentium 100) and even it hasn't broken once... Their
home
> PCs are crap though, but then they are just OEM'd... Vectra's seem to be
OK,
> but as a white box VAR, why the hell do I wanna sell branded desktops?
> heh...And HP even makes it easy to install OSes other than Windows on
their
> machines, I sold a customer a NetServer running SCO and HP provided the
same
> automated install stuff that they have for Windows, made it really really
> easy...
>
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