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To: Saturn V who wrote (142666)	9/3/2001 11:38:43 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Burroughs and Univac mergeed to form Unisys Well, not exactly. Those two companies had two disparate operating systems and proprietary hardware solutions which were incompatable with each other. Their main competition was from IBM, who was establishing the standard in big Iron and letting it drift down to large midrange iron were burroughs and sperry were getting their respective lunches eaten. HWP and CPQ are eating each others lunch in PC and Midrange systems, IBM is present, but much will be gained by these companies in tandem in these areas rather than in competition. AND unlike sperry and burroughs, both companies are trending to the SAME software and hardware. It is obvious to me that Both Ben Rosen and the Packard Foundation is in on this deal. There is no other way it would be kept such a secret. RUDEDOG WE NEED YOU!!!! My take is that this deal will work only if redundant manpower is eliminated; and that HP is truly committed to the Intel platform.

To: Saturn V who wrote (142666)	9/4/2001 2:27:45 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Hi Saturn, RE: "The history of computer company mergers is not great !" That was my first thought too. My second thought was, okay, Dell wins the desktop market (and possibly the low-end Servers), HP gets an opportunity to win the Server market, and Sun is squeezed. Intel wins in each category, along with the respective leaders. (Side note, the merger makes the Alpha sale look obvious.) I remember a post about HP being second best in several product categories. HP now has first place in a lot of product categories. Regards, Amy J