Here are a few more stories related to yesterday's news of the Hewlett-Packard and and Compaq merger:
MotleyFool.com - Fool News HP-Compaq Pact Downgraded
"HP CEO Carly Fiorina and Compaq's CEO Michael Capellas said that they would cut 15,000 jobs, 10% of the combined companies' payroll, to save $2.5 billion by 2004. They projected 2002 and 2003 sales to be lower than the two companies' total revenues, $87.4 billion for the last 12 months, with sales turning up thereafter."
Forbes.com- HP And Compaq: How Ugly?
"Three years ago, the wedding of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer would have had guests on both side of the aisle looking on with raw jealousy. Yesterday, the thought was that both the bride and groom were so unattractive they were just lucky to find each other."
Sun see rivals gaining from HP-Compaq merger
(Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of Compaq Computer, the computer industry's biggest ever merger, may benefit rivals in the short term, a senior Sun Microsystems executive said on Wednesday.
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(CNET) IBM is introducing a new midrange Unix server with the company's fastest processor yet, the company revealed on its Web site Tuesday. The eight-processor pSeries 660 6M1 comes with either the earlier RS64 III running at 500MHz or the newer RS64 IV at 750MHz, according to information posted on IBM's Web site. The RS64 IV is the same CPU used in the top-end p680 server, but that system uses slower 450MHz or 600MHz models.
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The SharkyExtreme Weekly Memory Prices have been updated: Memory prices are still falling, making it an excellent time to upgrade your system's memory. But while falling memory prices may be good news for consumers, we're beginning to see the negative repercussions of this trend in the memory chip industry.