Another year, another name change. We at Shannon Knows DEC, Shannon Knows
Distributed Enterprise Computing, Shannon Knows Compaq, and now Shannon
Knows HPC are getting used to the good old name game. And we hope that you
Constant Readers will take the latest name change in stride. Here's the
deal: Shannon Knows Compaq has withstood the rigors of two name changes plus
the economic angst of the thermonuclear winter incited by a wholesale
dot-com bombing. Acting on the news yesterday that the Delaware Chancery
Court has given Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of Compaq a go-ahead, SKC has
changed its name to Shannon Knows High Performance Computing. HP, of course,
can be construed as High Performance or Hewlett-Packard, which,
post-acquisition, will be Numero Uno in the High Performance Computing
arena. In the interest of brevity-plus a desire to coin a new five-letter
acronym-we'll now operate under the SKHPC name. Extended "dance version"
five-letter acronym aside, we'll continue to provide the same coverage we've
been dishing out for the last nine years, plus even more. And for those of
you who wonder why we didn't opt for Shannon Knows HPS, it turns out that
HPS is the acronym for Hewlett Packard Services! Thanks to a senior Compaq
manager for pointing out this potential gaffe to us!

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Terry C. Shannon
Consultant and Publisher
Shannon Knows HPC
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