Please se my posting regarding this alliance.
It seems that HP wants a bigger marketshare on just about anything
(who could blame them) but to do this through a deal with MS. See
where it leaves DEC

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On Tue, 25 Mar 1997 14:02:51 EST, Jim Phillips
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I've just been reading the March 24th Infoworld Letters to the Editor.
>There are several about the HP/MS alliance, none of them have anything
>good to say about it.  One even refers to it as an "unholy alliance".
>
>The letters are full of doom and gloom for HP:  I won't be able to
>trust HP anymore if they team up with MS.  MS is notorius for
>draining collaborators and then discarding them.  Hp will be in
>serious trouble.  etc, etc.
>
>I didn't recognize any of the letter writers as being part of the
>"HP faithful", but that's not surprising, they've probably never
>heard of me either!
>
>Anyway, are these predictions of doom and gloom to be taken seriously?
>
>Will HP be absorbed in MS?  Or will HP be left a dried up shell of
>its former self, unable to compete?
>
>Will "Big Brother Bill" simply buy up all the HP stock?
>
>What do you think?
>
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