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Technology Stocks : Compaq

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To: Piotr Koziol who wrote (91890)6/25/2001 9:13:22 PM
From: stribe30   of 97611
 
More unhappy hardware site reaction.

This from the Register.. (not going to send anymore to you.. just thought I'd show that hardware oriented sites reaction tho this move is seemingly universally negative)

"Don Capellas justifies Compaq Alphacide"

a snippet:

Compaq boss Mike Capellas has issued a long
justification for murdering the Alpha chip...
Capellas paid the chip - and its gifted designers - the
kind of icy tribute that Cosa Nostra elders give at
funerals of recently butchered kin:-

"The essence of Alpha will live on within the Itanium
architecture," writes the Codfather, improbably.


Full article here:

theregister.co.uk
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