--- John Hiemenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
I supose its possible, however i don't know who is left to purchase
them. IBM, Dell & SUN are the only remaining competitors. IBM has
never been in on the 'large buyout' program. SUN is hurting really bad
right now, and can't afford to buy anything. Dell is a possibility though.
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