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To: Tony Viola who wrote (117571)	11/13/2000 1:20:21 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony, And Happy Monday to you, glad to see you are taking your meds faithfully <g>. From the HP press release: ``We are pleased that revenue growth is accelerating, but very disappointed that we missed our EPS growth target this quarter due to the confluence of a number of issues that we now understand and are urgently addressing. I accept full responsibility for the shortfall,'' said Carly Fiorina, HP chairman, president and chief executive officer. ``Issues that reduced profitability included margin pressures, adverse currency effects, higher-than-expected expenses, and business mix. The good news is that our business is healthy, demand is strong, and we are making good progress against our strategic objectives as we continue the hard work of reinventing HP. We are determined to succeed and are not backing away from our growth targets,'' Fiorina said. It does sound as if the Intel portion of their business is doing very well. It looks like they captured the largest portion of the retail business that IBM abandoned. Is the release of the compilers for Itanium and P4, in the article I posted earlier, noteworthy? Being fairly simple minded, I'm absorbed in this election thing, and not really following tech news very much, just watching myself get poorer and poorer... John