Destruction of DEC

From: Merle K. Peirce <at258_at_osfn.org>
Date: Thu Mar 21 07:44:06 2002

The liklihood is that Compaq will be dismantled as a result, and that, in
itself seems a decent enough reason for the merger.


On 20 Mar 2002, R. D. Davis wrote:

> Quothe Joseph.Pollizzi_at_encompassus.org, from writings of Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 03:45:49PM -0600:
> > Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer Corporation have announced that they
> > both believe that they have enough shareholder votes to approve the merger.
>
> DEC's destruction began when DEC was palmerized into a ghost of it's
> former self and sold into slavery to Microsoft. Then much damage to
> this once great computer company, DEC, was done by Compaq (a wannabe
> computer company that never made real computers, and destroyed an
> acquisition, DEC, that did), and, now, this appears to be little more
> than the nails being hammered into the coffin of what was once Digital
> Equipment Corporation.
>
> R.D.D.
>
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M. K. Peirce

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