Re: Interesting News..

I agree. First of all there is no certainty that the marriage will ever be consummed (there has been a lot of corporate engagement break-ups in the past years. Remember GE/Honeywell, Jack Welch's apotheosis? German and French banks? Pharmacy?). There's too much overlap between the two (all those small NT servers ...), it will definitely translate into job-axing, bitterness, and a lot of people fleeing the companies (not the worst ones usually), which seldom has the best of effects on customers (there has been a time, during the Compaq/Digital merger, when in the whole greater Paris area there was ONE field-engineer to change controllers and the like for Alpha servers. Fortunate that MTBF is high). I am ready to bet that before long it will be such a mess, whether the merger goes ahead or doesn't, that Ms Fiorina will be thanked with a handsome cheque and that champagne will flow at Sun and IBM. In comparison, DaimlerChrysler will look like a major success story.

S Faroult.

Guy Hammond wrote:
>
> 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)
>
> g
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> >
> > -----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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