RE: Interesting News..

From: Guy Hammond <guy.hammond_at_avt.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 02:31:01 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00382E79.20010905023525@fatcity.com>

On the contrary, I'd say this is a godsend for Sun. Compaq made a mess of truly epic proportions when they tried to integrate DEC and Tandem into their operations. HP did just as badly with Apollo. There are going to be bitter turf wars between the HP/UX and Tru64 (or Ultrix or whatever it's called this week) camps, Alpha and PA-RISC, ProLiant and whatever HP's x86 servers are called, and so forth. Sun will walk right in and clean up in the workstation and midrange markets. And, when it comes to shifting x86 boxes, neither HP nor Compaq could match the efficiency of Dell, and in a commodity market, operating efficiency is all that matters. This merger will go down in corporate history as a mistake of epic proportions.

Of course, I'm in the Solaris camp, so take my words in context :0)

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Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 7:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

I'm curious. What happens to Tru64 or HP-UX? One of them's got to go, would'nt you think? How about their Unix servers? I know they're both going to 64-bit Itanium eventually, but can they support both product lines? Wonder how VAX/VMS is going to fare? How does this effect Sun? I'd say this would have a negative impact on Sun.

It'll be interesting to see what product lines get cut and which ones continue. Should be fun to see how things pan out over the next 12 to 18 months.

mkb

"Walthour, Jon (GEAE, Compaq)" <Jon.walthour_at_ae.ge.com> wrote:
> Jared:
>
> It's the buzz of the office this morning. No one
> here seems to have seen it
> coming.
>
> Jon Walthour
> Oracle Database Administrator
> COMPAQ DBA Team
> Cincinnati, Ohio
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> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 12:33 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
>
> HP Acquiring Compaq?
>
> Yow!
>
> That's big news!
>
> Anyone see this coming? I would have never guessed.
>
> Jared
> On Tuesday 04 September 2001 07:02, Mark Leith
> wrote:
> > Thought this would interest you guys..
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