Article from _The Register_: "Secret pact between Compaq, MS revealed"
theregister.co.uk
Posted 25/03/99 4:25pm by Mike Magee
Secret pact between Compaq, MS revealed
Sources close to both Microsoft and Compaq's plans have revealed the extent of their
co-operation on future versions which are OpenVMS based.
Eckhard Pfeiffer, CEO of Compaq, and Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, are continuing
their plans to leave Intel out in the cold, our sources said.
The "alliance" between Compaq and Microsoft extends until 2005, our sources
confirmed. Samsung will produce cheap Alphas.
"OpenVMS" in its full manifestation is Windows NT 8, our source told us.
Where does this leave Intel and the Merced engineers currently fleeing Compaq? Our
source refused to be drawn on this one.
Tomorrow, we will publish a strictly internal document from Compaq on how it should
be seen by the outside world. This is not nearly half as funny as Intel's document How
to deal with the European Press but will help all you Compaq partners how to
understand the new world order.
One snippet suggests that all Compaq badges have to be on the belt, "or lower".... A
sign of a gulag, we will be bound... ®
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