> 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?
Ok guys, I am a Compaq (aka Digital) employee and have been affected
both by the Compaq-Intel deal and the newly announced HP deal. It is a
merger of companies (but swallowed up is a good term too). It is not
clear at this point what Unix will survive. As far as Linux is
concerned, Compaq has been Linux friendly too since it had a Redhat and
Suse distro for its alpha platform.
And Intel is also going for linux too (believe it or not - I can say no
more at this time).
It was clearly a shock for us folks at the Spitbrook Road facility in
Nashua, NH. But when you think about it, in light of the Intel
agreement, not all that suprising.
Being a general purpose developer sort myself, I am lucky in that I
don't have to stick with an OS and can move as I desire. So I am going
to stick it out and will probably end up working for Intel next year.
But one can never tell, so quickly can things change! :-)
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