In message <[log in to unmask]>, Terry C.
Shannon <[log in to unmask]> writes
>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!

Please excuse my confusion, but don't you have to 'Learn About'
something before you 'Know' it?

As you weren't, to my knowledge, 'Shannon Knows HP' before yesterday,
how has the mere fact of the merger equipped you so to be?

Or should it be 'Shannon Knows That Bit of HewCom Paqard (Or Whatever
They Are Going To Call Themselves) Which Used To Be DEC, And Is Rapidly
Trying To Get Up To Speed On the Rest Of It'?

Anyway, if they do think up a new name (the last bit of HP to be hived
off was named after an anagram of 'Genital'), you'll only have to change
it yet again :-(

PS - you might want to add comp.sys.hp.hpux to your newsgroup list.
Seems a shame to leave them out, even if it is a minority interest
OS.....
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