Carly's team has a full page advertisement on the back of the financial
section of today's Wall Street Journal.  In that ad, Carly's team cites the
need to have a significant presence in the "fastest-growing segments of the
server business" (i.e., Windows & Linux) as a reason to carry through on
her urge-to-merge.  They contrast this with the "slower-growing Unix server
market".

My questions:

1.  Is it wise to migrate to an OS that has already been declared "slower-
growing" (it seems that I heard similar statements about MPE being "slower-
growing" just a few months ago)?

2a.  Since Carly's team seems to believe that marketing can alter voting
trends among shareholders, do they think that marketing could alter buying
trends among customers, too?

2b.  If HP had invested half as much money and effort into marketing the
HP3000 as it has put into marketing Carly's urge-to-merge, could it have
altered that system's "slow-growth" trend?


Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

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