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To: PCSS who wrote (93835)	11/21/2001 11:13:43 PM
From: MeDroogies	Respond to of 97611

ONLY THE BEST TO ALL! We may not agree on much...but I know this...family, freedom, love and liberty all come first to all of us (if not in that order). Let's have a good one!

To: PCSS who wrote (93835)	11/24/2001 10:31:50 PM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Respond to of 97611

Compaq No. 2 boosts merger with Hewlett 'We remain very committed to this merger and the Compaq board remains very committed to this': Blackmore in Toronto Robert Thompson Financial Post Carlo Allegri, National Post Peter Blackmore, Compaq's executive vice-president of sales and services, was in Toronto yesterday for his annual visit. Peter Blackmore, the number two executive at Compaq Computer Corp., yesterday defended the company's proposed sale to Hewlett-Packard Co., saying employees at both businesses have not been distracted by the controversy surrounding the deal. "We remain very committed to this merger and the Compaq board remains very committed to this," Mr. Blackmore, Compaq's executive vice-president of sales and services, said while in Toronto yesterday. "Clearly this has to be managed and we need positive shareholder votes, but this is something we'll deal with." Mr. Blackmore reports directly to Compaq chief executive Michael Capellas and is in charge of the company's sales and service division, which employs 38,000. He was in Toronto yesterday for his annual visit to meet with company employees and customers. Mr. Blackmore will play a key role in HP should the acquisition of Compaq be approved, taking over the company's US$23-billion information technology infrastructure business. But aside from potentially closing some large sales, Mr. Blackmore was also in Canada to update customers and company workers on the state of the deal with HP. Rumours and speculation have surrounded the acquisition of Compaq by HP since it was first announced on Sept. 5. Hewlett and Packard family members, which control less than 10% of HP's stock, came out publicly against the deal earlier this month, leading to concern the acquisition was in peril. But a strong quarter by HP last week and a rebound in the company's stock price appears to have fueled support for the acquisition of Compaq. HP shares fell to a 52-week low of US$12.50 following the Sept. 5 announcement of the Compaq deal, but stock in the company has rebounded, closing yesterday at US$20.95. Compaq has not had the same successes that HP has recently witnessed. At the end of October, the company announced that revenue for its third quarter of 2001 fell by 33% from the same period a year earlier. The company's share price has also been fluctuating, falling from a high of US$13.65 in the week before the acquisition was announced to lows of US$7.66 in recent weeks. Shares in the company closed at US$9.63 yesterday. That puts increased pressure on Mr. Blackmore to deliver a strong fourth quarter, despite comments made by Mr. Capellas which indicate Compaq expects computer sales to remain slow during the final four months of 2001. Motivating employees could be difficult given the fact that 15,000 employees will be cut from both Compaq and HP once the deal is finalized, which is expected sometime towards the middle of 2002. Industry analysts have repeatedly said the deal will distract employees at both companies, while competitors like Dell Computer Corp. will benefit Mr. Blackmore denied that employees at Compaq have been distracted by the deal or potential layoffs. The company has a dedicated staff dealing with the acquisition, he added, leaving Compaq's regular employees to go about their jobs. "The concern that people aren't focused on their jobs, well that is simply an absolute fabrication," said Mr. Blackmore. "The employees [at Compaq] are not involved in merger planning. We will involve them in merger planning right before the merger, but all the country offices around the world on either side are focused on their customers." rthompson@nationalpost.com

To: PCSS who wrote (93835)	11/27/2001 6:42:24 PM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Respond to of 97611

Palm user switches to iPAQ by: skeptically 11/27/01 06:27 pm Msg: 262118 of 262119 newsalert.com aq&Nav=na-search-&StoryTitle=compaq November 27, 2001 16:12 Detroit Free Press Mike Wendland Column By Mike Wendland, Detroit Free Press Nov. 27 By my count, the new Pocket PC operating system is Microsoft's fourth try to get it right for handheld computers. And while it may not be perfect, it's close enough. I've abandoned my Palm m505 handheld in favor of a much beefier Compaq iPaq 3835 ($599) running the month-old Pocket PC 2002 upgrade. Apparently, I'm not alone. When I bought my unit two weeks ago, the Best Buy store in Auburn Hills and the CompUSA stores in Auburn Hills and Troy were sold out. I bought the last one in stock from the Madison Heights CompUSA. All of the stores had plenty of Palm handhelds in stock. While my informal survey was certainly subject to change with restocking, national sales figures show Pocket PCs doubling their share of the handheld market over the past year, now accounting for about 20 percent of sales, compared to Palm's 80 percent. The Gartner Group tech research firm predicts Pocket PCs will hit 30 percent handheld market penetration by next year. Although Hewlett-Packard, Casio, NEC, and Toshiba are making the devices, it was the iPaq that caught my eye. I flirted with one last spring. It's hard to find a brighter, easier-to-read screen. But there were just enough glitches and idiosyncrasies about the older Pocket PC operating system that I went back to the Palm. Not this time. The improvements include SD memory card expansion capabilities, a much easier user interface, more reliable and faster synchronization of Microsoft Word documents and Excel spreadsheets and an improved Windows Media player for MP3 music playback. Two things in particular won me over. First was the new ability of Pocket PC 2002 to allow text input similar to Palm's easy-to-master Graffiti system. Pocket PC calls it Block Recognition, and it comes in addition to handwriting recognition and on-screen keyboard methods of entering text. I swear Block Recognition is easier, faster and more accurate on my iPaq than Graffiti was on my Palm. Secondly, Pocket PC now lets you close a program by tapping a tiny "x" on the top right of the screen. Older versions of Pocket PC were not nearly as intuitive. The iPaq also has a standard plastic case that protects the screen. And the iPaq 3835's battery now lasts up to 12 hours with moderate use, compared to about 9 hours with previous models. With 64 megabytes of standard memory, most users won't even need the expansion slot. But if you have a lot of digital pictures or sound files, it can hold an SD card with up to 128 MB of additional memory. The biggest drawback, compared to a Palm, remains the cost. Pocket PCs run from $500 to $650. Palm units start at just over $200 and go to around $400. Sure, the pretty face of my Pocket PC 2002 first caught my eye. But it was the much-greater functionality that really won me over. -- Contact Mike Wendland at mwendland@freepress.com or 313-222-8861. ----- To see more of the Detroit Free Press, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to freep.com Copyright: (c) 2001, Detroit Free Press. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. MSFT, PALM, CPQ, BBY, CPU, IT, HWP, NIPNY, TOSBF, CSIOY,

To: PCSS who wrote (93835)	12/2/2001 11:09:26 AM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Capellas Keynotes OpenWorld Mon. morning by: skeptically 12/02/01 10:16 am Msg: 262484 of 262488 oracle.com >>Sunday, December 2 Tom Brokaw, Anchor and Managing Editor NBC Nightly News 5:00pm - 6:00pm Monday, December 3 Michael Capellas, Chairman and CEO, Compaq Computer Corporation The New Economics of Enterprise Computing 9:45am - 10:30am Share the vision of a new economic model for enterprise computing - one that builds on open, market-unifying architectures, leverages best-in-the-industry partners like Oracle and enables a new generation of managed services, including IT utilities. Enterprise customers are looking for solutions that extend their existing IT infrastructure to take advantage of new opportunities like wireless, networked storage and Web services. One of the biggest challenges will be managing a world of pervasive information and increasingly complex, unstructured data. Find out how Compaq and Oracle are working together to deliver database solutions that enable customers to reduce costs and build a competitive advantage.<< Platinum Sponsors: Compaq, EMC, Intel, Sun