--- DOUGLAS HUNLEY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As you've all no doubt heard by now, HP is gobbling up Compaq for
> $25billion (US) making them #2 in the market...
>
> What does this bode for Dell? What will this mean for future Linux
> support? HP is fairly Linux-friendly...in my experience at least.
>
> Thoughts?
I'm not so sure how good it is.
Neither of them were doing too well financially recently. Both laid off
several thousand. Compaq announced that they were getting out of the
workstation business. HP has been getting slaughtered in the
workstation business. Since neither had a clue how to make it on their
own, i dont' see how that will change together.
FWIW, yes they are both supporters of Linux. Both had huge booths at
Linuxworld, and both have fairly large internal sourceforge deployments.
I expect massive layoffs from both, since there is quite a bit of
overlap between the two companies.
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