I placed this message in one of my HP3000-L folders ...
"Rants" and I made two calendar entries to check this 
message 18 and 24 months from now.

BT
NNNN
Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Brandt [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 8:46 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: NPR story on the Walter Hewlett 
> suit against
> HP
> 
> 
> At 02:33 PM 4/22/2002 -0400, Wirt Atmar wrote:
> >Tom writes:
> >
> > > This was broadcast on Morning Edition. It includes a replay of the
> > >  notorious Fiorina voice mail message to HPs CFO.
> > >
> > >  http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20020422.me.08.ram
> >
> >It's basically all over, except for the recriminations. 
> Hewlett has a very
> >high hurdle to cross now if he is to prove his allegations, 
> one that is
> >probably almost impossible to do in any practical sense.
> 
> Prediction:
> 
> 18 to 24 months after the merger, when revenues are lower 
> than projected,
> when costs are higher than projected, when disgruntled 
> customers leave and
> don't come back, when a RIF'ed and demoralized workforce is 
> unproductive,
> when the stock price sinks to unprecedented lows, and HP finds itself
> facing breakup, takeover or bankruptcy, the blame will be placed on...
> 
> Walter Hewlett (instead of where it belongs)
> 
> You heard it here first.
> --------------------------------
> Tom Brandt
> Northtech Systems, Inc.
> 313 N. 1st Street
> Ann Arbor, MI 48103
> http://www.northtech.com/
> 
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