I wonder how much of that profit came from the e3000 systems that have been
selling
in record amounts since September 2001.
HoDuhThunk
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] NYTimes.com Article: Hewlett Lifts Profit
Outlook and Each Side in War Exults
In message <[log in to unmask]>, Tom Brandt
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>This article from NYTimes.com
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>"Today's positive earnings update - just like last month's
>earnings announcement by Compaq and our fourth-quarter
>results before that - proves what the people of these two
>companies can accomplish," Ms. Fiorina said at the
>conference, which was sponsored by Goldman, Sachs &
>Company. "We aren't distracted by the merger or the
>challenge of integration. And our customers aren't
>defecting."
Indeed not. Their HP3000 customers, at least, are *being defected*,
whether they like it or not. I doubt she'd say that though.
--
Roy Brown 'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd useful, or believe to be beautiful' William Morris
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