Good luck to you!!!   I do beleive that $18 will be looked at as a very smart
move - $18/share... in 3 to 5 years, but I also beleive that $18 today is
better than $0... in 3 to 5 years.


Let's face it....

IBM is pretty much the king on minis (Now that HP is out of e3000 and most
probably unix pretty soon)
DELL is the king on PCs (Now that HP and Compaq are combined and everybody is
confused..)
Minolta's latest color laserjet printers are very promising and 1/2 price
than what HP is selling it for  (Including the cartridges - I am comparing
Minolta 2200 with HP LaserJet 4500 - 20 pages instead of 17 pages, 5 full
color pages instead of 2 full color pages, much crispier colors, 3 years
warranty isntead of 1 year from HP and much much more...) and I am starting
to see that people buy more and more of Brother and Lexmark laserjet printers
than HP laserjets (based on what I have heard from Office Depot's sales
manager and Circuit City's sales manager - specially since beginning)

So, where will HP be in 3 to 5 years?  Only the time will show!!!  Let's hope
that you and me will be healthy enough to live that long to see what will
happen!

PS: No guys, this is not because I am pissed from HP!  This is just my
view...

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