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To: Night Writer who wrote (95878)	3/8/2002 4:35:58 PM
From: Jerome	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

>>>HWP is also going up. This is strange <<< Not at all.... now that the idle chatter has died off...and investors start paying attention to the realities of the deal, HWP rises and so will CPQ. During the month of Feb. it was impossible to tell if HWP was falling in its own merits or was the market downtrend in tech stocks responsible. Lastly...Wally is out of Ammo... he pissed away 35 million dollars. That's enough money to feed 1 million persons for 35 days. We know where his priorities are. In terms that the thread viewers might comprehend it (35 M) is equivalent to 60 million cases of beer. This is enough for a million cases for each individual thread poster on this thread for the last 35 days. (Gottfried...do you want the claim forms...:-)

To: Night Writer who wrote (95878)	3/10/2002 10:37:32 PM
From: Captain Jack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Wierd Wally is confident-- LOL,, so he sends a begging letter to SHs? NEW YORK, March 10 (Reuters) - Walter Hewlett, the Hewlett-Packard Co <HWP.N> shareholder who is waging a proxy battle to stop HP from buying Compaq Computer Corp <CPQ.N>, said on Sunday that he was confident the deal would be defeated. In an open letter to HP stockholders, Hewlett said he is "ever more confident that the proposed Compaq merger will be defeated," and urged holders to vote against the deal. Hewlett-Packard shareholders are slated to vote on the proposed $22 billion merger on March 19. On Friday, U.S. pension fund giant Calpers said it would vote against the deal, in part due to the high premium being paid for Compaq. Hewlett also cited another fund, the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board, one of the largest pension funds in Canada, which said it would vote its shares against the deal. Hewlett, a dissident HP board member and son one of the company's co-founders, has assembled a block of about 20 percent of the votes in his campaign to defeat the deal, which he says could destroy one of Silicon Valley's most respected corporations. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Hewlett-Packard last week cleared its final regulatory hurdle by obtaining Federal Trade Commission approval for the deal. Shares of Compaq closed up 5.8 percent on Friday at $11.80 on the New York Stock Exchange, off a 52-week high of $21.91 but up from a year low of $7.28. Hewlett-Packard shares ended the week up 2.9 percent at $20.59, down from a year high of $34, but up from a year low of $12.50. ((Angela Moore, New York mergers & acquisitions desk, (646) 223-6142)) REUTERS