Well, whatever you call the newsletter, it should prove to be an interesting
chronicle of the on-going soap opera of one set of related mergers in the
computer industry.  I lived thru one failed merger on a vastly smaller scale:
Honeywell, GE and Groupe Bull.  What always seems to be missing in a merger is a
clear vision and strategic direction, because executives are too busy fighting
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.

... Ben Myers

On Wed, 01 May 2002 14:39:39 GMT, "Terry C. Shannon" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>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!
>
>--
>Terry C. Shannon
>Consultant and Publisher
>Shannon Knows HPC
>PLEASE NOTE MY *NEW* EMAIL ADDRESS
>email: [log in to unmask]
>Web (info on SKC):  www.openvms.org, www.tru64.org
>
>

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