The answer should be plane to see. When Compaq acquired DEC.. guess what got dropped.. Alpha Servers.
This, by the way, was against Microsoft's recommendation(internally). MS Development LOVED the Alpha servers and they ran damn fast and were very reliable. But they are in essence a dead product now thanks to CPQ.
So if HP is buying Compaq , you can guess that it's HP Server Division will be working very hard to move the CPQ servers out of the industry just like CPQ did with DEC. Granted that will take some doing and time.. but the way Corp. strategy works it's likely that within 2 years CPQ will be increasing harder and harder to support by HP's own design. Sad, but it's the way Corp. America works.
If Dell has a clue about it's own strategy they would put ALL of it's engineering resources into Server design and work hard to provide better/more integrated managing tools for it's Server lines. This would allow them to take over the server market in the flux of CPQ--->HP.
my .02 cents
-Rick
-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Hanks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 9:56 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: HP to acquire Compaq?
Major scale takeover!!! I'm just wondering which of the product lines will
get the chop. I know Compaq recently announced that they would be tapering
off the production of Alpha machines, so I wonder which of the overlapping
products will be cut as well. I suspect that the HP desktop range may be
tapered off as Compaq have some red hot desktop machines.
Will the combined company be larger than IBM? The suggestion here in Oz is
that it would be as they both anounced sales figures just under IBM's
recently.
Does the USA have anything like the ACCC ( Australian Competition and
Consumer Commission) which has to vet the merger? If so then they may have
a hard time pushing this deal through. I'm assuming the SEC only handles
the company management side of things, not how this will affect consumers.
Some wild times still ahead for the IT industry. :-)
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From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, 4 September 2001 12:42
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Subject: HP to acquire Compaq?
Wow.
http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2001/09/03/deals/wires/hp_re/
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