Ben Myers wrote:
> for their own corporate lives to think clearly.  The blood and carnage of HPaq
> employees will be considerable once the wheels of this merger get turning.

I am not so sure. In all fairness to Carly, she has shown herself to be
ruthless when it comes to anyone trying to stop her. Her treatment of Hewlett
is a good indication.

The problem may happen at the Winkler levels below her. Curly will just be a
good puppy happy to finally have a master because he was totally lost at
Compaq without a boss. But folks like Winkler who have a certain agenda may
have clashes with people, especially if they have to work with HP people.

If VMS is put on status quo ("we'll honour our commitments to existing
customers"), then I suspect that the VMS folks will also be good puppies and
stay quiet in the basement and not disturb anyone.


The turmoil may present opportunities to raise VMS's prominence, or it may
also be the time for VMS to really stay quiet under the radar, wait for the
turf wars to be finished and then come out of its foxhole and try to get
permission to do marketing.

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