John:

The following is my reply to Wirt re a posting of his yesterday:

"I guess, Wirt, that we should all get used to the 'new' hp (post-merger failure) as our one-stop shopping experience for printers, with good ol' Walter at the helm, in between music and academic engagements. I don't know where some of the people on the '3000-l' can possibly see anything positive emanating from a failed merger, can you?

Kindest regards and felicitations".

I solicit your assessment of my assertions.

MY opinions, NOT MY EMployer's, YMMV, etc. etc.

John Penney



>>> John Lee <[log in to unmask]> 03/14/02 10:55AM >>>
At 01:03 PM 3/14/02 EST, Wirt Atmar wrote:
>
>In a very direct way, the merger vote is coming down to a referendum on
>Carly, and it's easy to see her enthusiasm for the vote. If the merger fails,
>she's almost certainly out of a job and possibily at the end of her career.
>If the merger suceeds, she gets 63 million dollars in additional
compensation.
>
>Given those two alternatives, it should not be difficult to divine where her
>values lie.
>
>Wirt Atmar

And this is why, more than any other reason, I'm opposed to the
merger...it's being done for the wrong reasons.  I also suspect HP is
paying too much for Compaq, although don't ask me to prove it.

John Lee

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