david.gudewicz writes:

> If we learn nothing from history, we are doomed to repeat it.  Or something
>  like that.
>
>  Can anyone here enlighten us with a merger such as this that DID work?  And
>  to reiterate the obvious, the Compaq assimilation of DEC did NOT work.

Although this is another of those messages that the original author won't see
because of the multiple-newsgroup gated postings to HP3000-L, nonetheless it
may be of some value to mention that the AOL-Time Warner merger, the largest
in history, also posted the largest loss in American financial history two
weeks ago: $54 billion dollars, a loss twice the size of the HP-Compaq
merger's value.

Wirt Atmar

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