Hopefully the skids are teflon: http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=109418 Not too much new except for the baseball metaphor. If only she had waited until the week before the stockholders meeting to announce the merger.... Her epitaph at HP [certainly NOT iambic pentameter]: There once was a woman named Carly, Who thought a merger with Compaq would be gnarly, It's easy to see, said she, It'll benefit HP, Compaq and me, But the Family, customers, employees, stockholders, and finacial analysts became snarly. * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *