Actually, I've heard it was because HP's Carly was throwing free machines at
Oracle (and Amazon, BTW) to get them to switch.
Brian
"Boivin, Patrice J" wrote:
> I think I now know why...
>
> http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/247/nation/Hewlett_Packard_to_buy_Compaq+.
> shtml
> <http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/247/nation/Hewlett_Packard_to_buy_Compaq+
> .shtml>
>
> Patrice Boivin
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