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To: PCSS who wrote (95476)	2/26/2002 3:15:46 PM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Tuesday February 26, 2:39 pm Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: Compaq Computer Corporation Compaq Announces New Enterprise Storage Products; New Offerings Enhance Power of Compaq SAN and NAS HOUSTON, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ - news), the global leader in disk storage and the leading provider of SANs worldwide(1), has announced a wide range of new enterprise storage products designed to increase the versatility and power of existing Compaq SAN and NAS offerings. StorageWorks by Compaq MSL5052SL. Provides an innovative answer to backup and restore requirements in the departmental segment, with enterprise level features (hot plug drives, dual redundant power supply, seamless scalability, cPCI I/O slots), and the segment's highest storage density in a compact 10U form factor. Simplifies backup and restore management activities, providing unique data protection value. www.compaq.com/products/storageworks/msl5052sl/index.html StorageWorks by Compaq Rackmount Tape Options. Growing demands on storage and increasing rack-densities have created the need for many customers to migrate their data protection solution outside of the server. Rackmount Tape Options provide low-cost, rack-dense solutions for moving Compaq DAT, AIT, DLT, and SDLT tape drives into small rackmount spaces. www.compaq.com/storage/enclosurematrix.html StorageWorks by Compaq SAN Switch 2/16. The next generation of Fibre Channel SAN fabric switches featuring increased transfer speed and the optional ability to trunk or aggregate the throughput of up to four inter- switch ports. The higher speed coupled with optional trunking feature allows users to install these switches in pairs as high speed backbone devices for joining SAN islands with minimal performance degradation. These switches are appropriate where increased performance and high throughput is needed for video streaming, intensive on-line transaction processing (OLTP), and medical imaging. The SAN Switch 2/16 combines 1Gbit/s and 2Gbit/s Fibre Channel throughput with new features that greatly enhance switch operation. www.compaq.com/products/storageworks/fcsanswitch216/index.html StorageWorks by Compaq Enterprise Virtual Array Expansion Cabinets. Allows Enterprise Virtual Array customers to expand the disk capacity behind their Enterprise controllers. This enhancement consists of two ``side car'' cabinets that are easily cabled to the Enterprise Virtual Array. www.compaq.com/products/storageworks/enterprise/index.html StorageWorks by Compaq AIT 100GB Tape Drive. The AIT 100GB tape drive provides enterprise environments with a data archival and data protection solution that delivers outstanding capacity, performance, reliability and density. The AIT 100GB, with a sustained native data transfer rate of 12MB/s makes it possible to quickly backup large volumes of data. The AIT 100GB provides outstanding reliability for enterprise environments. www.compaq.com/products/storageworks/ait100/index.html StorageWorks by Compaq SDLT 110/220GB Maintenance Kit. When implementing a data protection strategy, Compaq enterprise customers require the proper tools for minimizing system downtime, while increasing their level of data protection integrity. The SDLT 110/220GB Maintenance Kit provides these tools in a low-cost solution kit that supports all Compaq SDLT 110/220GB tape-based data protection solutions. www.compaq.com/products/storageworks/sdlt110220/index.html Availability Management Service for SANs and Availability Monitoring Service for SANs. Highly proactive service combining availability assessment, monitoring, and service management for continuous improvement of availability in the customer's SAN infrastructure. compaq.com StorageWorks by Compaq Array Controller Software (v8.6-4). A patched version of Array Controller Software (ACS) v8.6-1. It will be available in all ACS product families (L, G, F, S, and P) and is being provided as a convenience to customers. StorageWorks by Compaq Array Controller Software (v8.6-1 Solutions Kits). The Solution Kits for the Array Controller Software (ACS) v8.6-1 provides access to the capabilities of the ACS 8.6-1 firmware. Today, we are announcing multiple enhancements to these kits to offer our customers the support they need to operate in their computing environment. www.compaq.com/products/storageworks/acs/index.html StorageWorks by Compaq FC2257c Fibre Channel HBA (for Solaris). The StorageWorks cPCI-to-Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter for Solaris is a dual channel, 64-bit cPCI-to-Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) with embedded multi-mode optical interface. It supports Private Loop Disk Attach and Fabric Loop Attach connections. www.compaq.com/products/storageworks/fca2257/index.html StorageWorks by Compaq SAN. This helps to integrate the new offerings that we have introduced seamlessly into our overall SAN Solution. www.compaq.com/products/storageworks/san/index.html SANworks by Compaq Virtual Controller Software. Provides storage controller software capability for the HSV110 Array Controller. www.compaq.com/products/sanworks/vcs/index.html Compaq Alpha Rail Kit. Provides a low-cost solution for mounting either the StorageWorks DLT Tape Array III or StorageWorks MSL5026 in a Marquee-based AlphaServer(TM) rack. www.compaq.com/storage/enclosurematrix.html Company Background Founded in 1982, Compaq Computer Corporation is a leading global provider of enterprise technology and solutions. Information on Compaq and its products and services is available at www.compaq.com . Compaq and the Compaq logo are trademarks of Compaq Information Technologies Group, L.P. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. This document contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the possibility that the Hewlett- Packard/Compaq merger does not close or that the companies may be required to modify aspects of the transaction to achieve regulatory approval or that prior to the closing of the proposed merger, the businesses of the companies suffer due to uncertainty; the market for the sale of certain products and services may not develop as expected; that development of these products and services may not proceed as planned; that Compaq and Hewlett-Packard are unable to transition customers, successfully execute their integration strategies, or achieve planned synergies; other risks that are described from time to time in Compaq and Hewlett-Packard's Securities and Exchange Commission reports (including but not limited to Compaq's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2000, HP's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended October 31, 2000, and subsequently filed reports). If any of these risks or uncertainties materializes or any of these assumptions proves incorrect, Compaq's results could differ materially from Compaq's expectations in these statements. Compaq assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements. (1) Most recent figures available from Gartner Dataquest for 2000 sales. SOURCE: Compaq Computer Corporation

To: PCSS who wrote (95476)	2/26/2002 3:17:58 PM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Respond to of 97611

Tuesday February 26, 3:00 pm Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: Compaq Computer Corporation Compaq Provides Battery Back Write Cache Capabilities to Increase Cache Availability and Preserve Data HOUSTON, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE: CPQ - news), today announced the availability of the Compaq Smart Array 5i Plus Controller and Battery Back Write Cache (BBWC) Enabler and the 256MB BBWC upgrade module. These new tools help protect customers against data loss during server power supply or RAID controller failure. The Smart Array 5i Plus Controller will be available in industry-standard Compaq ProLiant DL380, and ProLiant ML370 server models. The 256MB BBWC upgrade module works with the Compaq Smart Array 5300 series, Smart Array Cluster Storage, and StorageWorks MSA 1000. Both tools increase controller cache, thereby boosting reliability. As part of its adaptive infrastructure blueprint, Compaq is delivering tools and technologies for ProLiant servers, such as intelligent fault resilience and storage solutions, to help customers adapt to dynamic business and IT environments. The new BBWC technologies provide customers with enhanced server performance and reliability and increased data protection. For more details, please visit Compaq's Web site at: www.compaq.com/smartarray . Company Background Founded in 1982, Compaq Computer Corporation is a leading global provider of enterprise technology and solutions. Information on Compaq and its products and services is available at www.compaq.com . Compaq and the Compaq logo are trademarks of Compaq Information Technologies Group, L.P. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. This document contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the possibility that the Hewlett- Packard/Compaq merger does not close or that the companies may be required to modify aspects of the transaction to achieve regulatory approval or that prior to the closing of the proposed merger, the businesses of the companies suffer due to uncertainty; the market for the sale of certain products and services may not develop as expected; that development of these products and services may not proceed as planned; that Compaq and Hewlett-Packard are unable to transition customers, successfully execute their integration strategies, or achieve planned synergies; other risks that are described from time to time in Compaq and Hewlett-Packard's Securities and Exchange Commission reports (including but not limited to Compaq's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2000, HP's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended October 31, 2000, and subsequently filed reports). If any of these risks or uncertainties materializes or any of these assumptions proves incorrect, Compaq's results could differ materially from Compaq's expectations in these statements. Compaq assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements. SOURCE: Compaq Computer Corporation

To: PCSS who wrote (95476)	2/26/2002 3:27:29 PM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Respond to of 97611

Seems like if the ISS released their announcement during business hours, the stocks would probably have to be halted due to imbalances and that would be a mess. I'm guessing that they don't release during regular market hours. El

To: PCSS who wrote (95476)	2/26/2002 3:29:55 PM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Tuesday February 26, 3:08 pm Eastern Time HP mulled high pay for Fiorina, Capellas - Hewlett SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co.(NYSE:HWP - news). considered paying Carly Fiorina and Michael Capellas, the chief executives of HP and Compaq Computer Corp.(NYSE:CPQ - news) a total of $115 million over two years, including salary, bonus and options, after the companies merger, Walter Hewlett said on Tuesday. Hewlett, a merger opponent, is an HP board member who sits on HP's compensation committee, which earlier agreed to put off final negotiations for Fiorina and Capellas until after the $21 billion deal was done. He said in a statement he had attempted to persuade HP to disclose the packages. Hewlett said the compensation committee had discussed two-year contracts for the chief executives, who have declined merger retention bonuses. For Fiorina, compensation had included an annual salary of $1.6 million, a target annual bonus of $4.8 million and 6 million stock options with a ``total estimated current value'' of $57 million. The package considered for Capellas was an annual salary of $1 million, a target annual bonus of $3.8 million and 4 million stock options with a current value of $38 million.