I get the impression that Compaq is willing to milk the names for what
it can, but it is likely in their own best interest to have as many
machines out their with the Compaq name as they can. As for HP, I'm
afraid that this can be seen as a great opportunity to sell HP NT boxes
to people who don't want Compaq NT boxes; only groups who know what
their legacy is worth will want to grow forward onto a 64-bit box
running legacy code, really fast, without crashing.