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To: rudedog who wrote (78930)	3/1/2000 8:33:00 AM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

rude... They may have the incentive but do they have the ammunition to move the stock higher. I see that LU is going to spin off some of their internet interest to their shareholders and that some think it is to compensate their shareholders for their trip-up in earnings that resulted in the stock's tanking. CPQ could do the same but we got 1/2 cent increase in dividend. Whoooopeeee! Other than that, I have no clue as to what steps they could take to make this stock rise 40% in 30 business days. Respectfully, 35 seems more than optimistic to me. El

To: rudedog who wrote (78930)	3/1/2000 9:28:00 AM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Compaq Appoints Jeffrey M. Lynn Vice President and General Manager Of Professional Services HOUSTON, March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ - news) today announced the appointment of Jeffrey M. Lynn as Vice President and General Manager of Professional Services. Lynn will oversee Compaq's 10,000-person worldwide systems integration and outsourcing services business. Focused on helping customers to architect, plan, design, implement and manage their e-business environments, his team accounts for approximately $3 billion in annual revenue for Compaq. Today's announcement underscores Compaq's commitment to its services business, a key element of the company's strategy to deliver world-class NonStop(TM) eBusiness solutions and services. ``Jeff has the vast services experience and expertise necessary to advance Compaq's aggressive growth plan for the professional services business,' said Enrico Pesatori, Senior Vice President and Group General Manager of Compaq's Enterprise Solutions and Services Group. ``Jeff brings a unique blend of skills combining both in-depth knowledge of Compaq's key target markets, as well as an understanding of the core business issues and requirements faced by customers today. Whether a customer is transforming a traditional business for the Internet or starting up a brand new e-business, Jeff and his team are committed to helping customers simplify the complexity of staying open for business 24x7.' ``Professional services is a critical component for enterprise customers and a tremendous growth opportunity for Compaq,' said Lynn. ``The profile and importance of services in the e-business space will continue to increase dramatically over the coming years, and I firmly believe we have the right combination of skills, experience and partnerships to be at the epicenter of this revolution.' Lynn joins Compaq from IBM Global Services, where he was Vice President of Global Finance Industry Consulting. There he led consulting engagements for all facets of the financial services industry, including business strategy, business process re-engineering and redesign, management information design, implementation, and operations and technology redesign. Before IBM, Lynn was a partner in the Consulting Division at Ernst & Young. He has also served as Vice President in the Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs and Vice President at Citibank. Lynn holds a Master of Science degree in Management Information Systems from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also received his Bachelor of Computer Science degree from MIT. Compaq Professional Services, along with Compaq Customer Services, provides full and continuous end-to-end value to enterprise customers with proven e-business services solutions, allowing them to move quickly into new markets and compete at Internet speed. These life-cycle service solutions are delivered through 27,000 seasoned service professionals worldwide. About Compaq Compaq Computer Corporation, a Fortune Global 100 company, is the largest supplier of computing systems in the world. Compaq designs, develops, manufactures, and markets hardware, software, solutions, and services, including industry-leading enterprise computing solutions, fault-tolerant business-critical solutions, and communications products, commercial desktop and portable products, and consumer PCs for the NonStop(TM) Internet world. Compaq products and services are sold in more than 200 countries directly to businesses, through a network of authorized Compaq marketing partners, and directly to businesses and consumers through Compaq's e-commerce Web site at compaq.com. Compaq markets its products and services primarily to customers from the business, home, government, and education sectors. Customer support and information about Compaq and its products and services are available at compaq.com. Compaq, Registered U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. This release contains forward-looking statements based on current expectations that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. The potential risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially include implementation of a new model of distribution; the failure of systems associated with order fulfillment; changes in product mix; inventory risks due to shifts in market demand; continued competitive factors and pricing pressures; market responses to pricing actions and promotional programs; volatility of certain equity investments; component shortages; and instability in developing countries that may affect operations. Further information on the factors that could affect Compaq's financial results are included in its SEC filings, including the latest annual report on Form 10-K, and the latest quarterly report on Form 10-Q. SOURCE: Compaq Computer Corporation More Quotes and News: Compaq Computer Corp (NYSE:CPQ - news) Related News Categories: computer hardware, computers

To: rudedog who wrote (78930)	3/1/2000 10:24:00 PM
From: hlpinout	Respond to of 97611

I like enthusiastic better. Any comments? -- Posted 01/03/2000 4:38pm by Mike Magee Intel-Compaq deal maketh eight-way SMP market The VP of Compaq US' x86 enterprise server division said today that there were no circumstances he could contemplate where his company would ever use Rambus memory in its range of servers. Paul Santeler said that Compaq "has no plans to use Rambus in any of its servers, and that it would use DDR and synchronous memory for the foreseeable future. That came after Santeler's presentation on eight way servers where he explained Compaq's plans to proliferate its own chipset -- co-developed with Intel -- for servers using Willamette and Foster servers. Santeler said: "The 8500 is a tough act to follow-- we're going to extense (sic) it out with microprocessor refreshes. In Q1, 2001, we'll refresh it with Foster, which has a 400MHz quad pump front side bus. We'll have five memory controllers." He claimed that the performance of the Willamette/Foster processor will deliver double the performance of its current eight way offering, which uses the Intel Xeon processor. "Compaq will drive the price down, as it did with our 8500," said Santeler. When Compaq delivers the Foster eight way in Q1 2000, it will cost roughly the same as the current Proliant 8500, he said. Santeler also rubbished IDC's projections that only 90 eight way servers would ship in 1999, and said that it had already seeded 120 eight way servers before the eight way Profusion platform was introduced in last August. He repeated Enrico Pesatori's figure that Compaq had shipped 3,500 eight way Proliants since August, and although he absolutely refused to say how many Q will ship this year, he displayed a hand gesture that suggested a 45 to 50 per cent progression over last year's figures. The Sabre board, which Intel ships to Compaq competitors, did not cut it, said Santeler. "Compaq was very involved in making this market. When Sabre came out, it was broken and we kicked butt because we were ready with our solution." Forty one per cent of Compaq's eight way servers used six or more Xeon processors, he said. Part of the reason for Q's success in the market, said Santeler, was that it had chip level access to Corollary eight way server technology back in 1996, and when that company was taken over by Intel, the chip level relationship continued. © AND Posted 01/03/2000 4:46pm by Mike Magee Compaq to go from eight Fosters to eight McKinleys Paul Santeler, VP of Compaq's x86 enterprise server division is perfectly sanguine about where Intel's Itanium microprocessor stands, at least in the Houston roadmap. According to Santeler, who was remarkably frank about Compaq's future roadmap in a lunchtime interview: "Positioning Itanium is like positioning the new 454 engine from Chevvy. The Itanium is a new engine and we'll use this engine in a new car when it makes sense." He said Compaq will bring Itanium to market in a four way system first, and targeted specifically at specialised markets. Compaq will use an eight way system based on Foster (Willamette) and then will migrate that model to the future Intel McKinley model. Interesting. Compaq reckons there is so much growth in the eight way market, as its sales figures have proved, that it makes more sense to migrate the eight way model to McKinley, kind of leaving Itanium for the Itaniates. He said deals Compaq had brokered with Unisys would allow it to leverage 32-way x86 based systems and that he and his team will pursue rival Sun relentlessly. "The people I'm going after is (sic) Sun," he said. "We're a threat to Sun. Sun isn't a threat to us." Compaq's switched fabric technology will, said Santeler, who has worked there for 11 years, "drive volume economics into 32-way space". And so our next question, and our next story, was What about Alpha then? ©