Use it as a down-payment to buy Microsoft and then INVENT a working, decent
PC-OS.

My .02EUR

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:25:21 EST, Wayne R. Boyer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>In a message dated 2/11/02 12:26:32 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
>> What is still unclear in my
>> mind is "what is HP getting for $25 billion?"  Is it worth it?  How long
>> till payback?  My guess is that venture capitalists look at this and
>> shudder, because that's how they analyze things.  But maybe Carly and the
>> Board see something that they don't...maybe they see value and a quicker
>> payback than most others.
>
>Maybe we all could "help" Carly find some other ways to spend $25
billion???
>
>Lets say we 'allocate' only $100 million for beefing up MPE.  That leaves
us
>$24.9 billion to go... How about buying Zebra which we have been
discussing?
>That's a nice market niche that HP isn't involved with.  Anybody know what
>Zebra stock is worth?  Now what else?  How about a dye sublimation printer
>manufacturer?  Fargo perhaps?    Another market that HP isn't part of.  How
>about a manufacturer of high quality lenses that could be marketed with
HP's
>digital cameras?  How about buying up some small PC software comapnies and
>bundling the software with related HP hardware products like scanners?  I
bet
>HP has to pay royalties or license fees for lots of the software that they
>are bundling in with the hardware right now.
>
>I could go on.  Anybody else have any additional ideas to "help" Carly with
>her spending?
>
>Wayne Boyer
>
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