At :
http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,3959,605377,00.asp

it starts :

"In one 45-minute session at a gathering of 6,000
information-technology executives and potential customers, the
chairman and CEO of the newly combined Hewlett-Packard and Compaq
Computer corporations dissed rivals such as Dell Computer as a mere
distribution mechanism, Sun Microsystems and EMC as "stand-alone hot
box companies'' and IBM as a company that cares more for its own needs
than those of its customers."

Isn't HP becoming more of a commodity distribution center of
Windows/Linux software? Does Carly really believe that HP shows more
"care" for its customers than its own "needs"?

Does this bear out the old saying that if you repeat a lie enough
times it becomes truth? Or is it just plain "marketing-speak"?

Either way, the whole tone rankles.

Cheers,

John Dunlop

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