--- Denys Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Compaq did a huge misstep when they acquired first Tandem and then DEC.
> They should never have done that and that was the reason Eckard Pfeiffer was
> ultimately fired at Compaq. These senseless acquisitions proved to be too
> much for Compaq to assimilate and weakened the company financially.
In the immortal word of a great man...
"More companies die of indigestion than from starvation."
Now who said that?
-Craig
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