[rescue] This Just In: HP to buy Compaq

[Kevin Loch]

That would be a good move for HP.  At a recent dot com auction the lone
HP9000 (WTF were they using that for?) was the only item that went unbid
and unsold (and there were other big ticket items like EMC cabinets that
went
for 50k each).

KL

Mike Free wrote:
> 
> 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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