On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Pierre-Michel Ricordel wrote:

> High-tech giant Hewlett-Packard Co. is buying rival Compaq Computer Corp.
> for about $25 billion in a blockbuster merger that should shake up the
> struggling computer industry.
> 
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010904/ts/hewlett_packard_compaq.html
> 
> So now, the Digital remains are owned by HP...

Perhaps not a big surprise. COMPAQ always was PC company. They didn't have
the right knowledge or attitude to grow beyond that, and buying a DEC that
had already been run to the ground didn't change it.

> Now the question is, who will buy HP ?

IBM?

	Johnny

Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                  ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt@update.uu.se           ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol