In a message dated 12/7/2001 4:41:07 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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> This, coupled with the assassination of MPE, makes it appear that Carly's
> plan was too merge HP with Compaq and just be a giant make of PC's.
>

Which of course will fail big time.  There is no way they can compete against
Dell.  One of my customer just purchased HP PC Server and spent over $16,000
(thinking that if might be as reliable as HP3000), but the second day 3 disk
drives (out of 5 drives) failed.  HP does not and can not make better PCs
today (3 years ago, when they used to charge 2-3 times more than anybody
else, they were making quality PCs, but today with all the cheap prices their
quality is down to 0 and their profit can't be that much either.   Think
about it for a second...
Last year this time they used to sell CD Rewriters for as high as $325.
Today the latest CD Rewriters sell under $120)

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