On Tuesday 04 September 2001 09:13, Net Llama wrote:
> --- 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.
>
Safe Harbor? Is it possible that HP is grabbing up Compaq to avoid
getting purchased by another, yet-unamed, company?
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