John writes:

>  3. The plug was pulled on Carly's watch, so she is ultimately responsible.

> Let's not forget all the anguish on this list about Carly's repeated
failure
> to mention the HP 3000 in her various strategic statements months before
the
> announcement.

One person wrote me privately:

"I've heard speculation from several people with good contacts at HP, that
killing the HP 3000 was done mostly to convince the Compaq Board and Compaq
management that HP was serious about cutting its own products to facilitate
the merger. Winston was just the errand boy. Hence his emergence a year
later as VP and GM of the High Performance Computing Division."

I have no way of knowing whether these few lines are true or not, but they do
have the ring of plausiblity and are consistent with the general timeline.

Wirt Atmar

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