It has been attributed in turn to Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard.

That was the old HP way.  :-)

Denys

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Lalley [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 10:25 AM
To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
Subject: OT: Carly's toast!


--- Denys Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Compaq did a huge misstep when they acquired first Tandem and then DEC.
> They should never have done that and that was the reason Eckard Pfeiffer
was
> ultimately fired at Compaq.  These senseless acquisitions proved to be too
> much for Compaq to assimilate and weakened the company financially.

In the immortal word of a great man...

"More companies die of indigestion than from starvation."

Now who said that?

-Craig



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