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To: Lynn who wrote (79)	5/7/2002 9:31:45 AM
From: Jerome	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4345

Lynn...You started this HPQ thread so leave it be. If others have a problem with it ...they can post elsewhere. No offence to Stan Standridge or anyone else. Some people fight change until it wears them out, or they go away. Leave the thread as it is..... Jerome

To: Lynn who wrote (79)	5/7/2002 10:31:55 AM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4345

Good post. My thinking is you fight a good fight, then when the battle is over, you move to the next battle or leave. I used to work at the Agilent part of HWP and so I belive "the real HP way" is still over there but I still have plenty of shares of the old HWP (now HPQ) and I thus follow the company. At first I thought it was silly to have a thread just for a symbol change, but it seems to be that Carly has decided it was prudent to make Compaq workers feel welcome rather than just absorbed as if the BORG got 'em, so I "got with the program." I fought a major losing battle inside HP in the early 1990's when they wanted to do drug testing of new hires. It went all the way to the top where Dave Packard was still on the board and our "team" made of an internal internet discussion group elected a single person to speak to Dave on it. He admitted he didn't understand drugs and said he would defer his decision to Dick Hackborn and that was that... so we moved on with no repercussions to our careers but we felt we fought a good fight and would do it again. I bet Enron shareholders wish that Enron employees, ex-employees and stockholders could have felt comfortable voicing the same concerns that Walter voiced. Walter's mistake was to sue them after losing the battle as this was similar to taking a "family matter" to the courts and trying the case in the National Enquirer. Now, lets get the discussion over to why I should not sell a bunch of my stock now? Without CPQ, I saw HWP as a $25 to $30 stock in 2003 or 2004. Now with the merger, why should I expect HPQ to reach $25 or $30 by 2004? regards Kirk out

To: Lynn who wrote (79)	5/7/2002 11:25:05 AM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4345

Lynn, Kirk ended one of his postings to me with, "Welcome to HP!" This is the only statement of welcome I have seen by any ex-HWP shareholder to ex-CPQ shareholders. You forgot about this one... Message 17430608 "Welcome to the HP family, " Dave

To: Lynn who wrote (79)	5/7/2002 11:36:18 AM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4345

Lynn, Also... 1. Kirk ended one of his postings to me with, "Welcome to HP!" This is the only statement of welcome I have seen by any ex-HWP shareholder to ex-CPQ shareholders. No HWP shareholder came over to the CPQ thread when it was known the merger was a done-deal and invited us over to the HWP thread (with some kind of statement that SI would be requested to change the stock symbol to HPQ and the subject line "Hewlett Packard" to the correct corporate name "Hewlett-Packard"). But from your message #44 ( Message 17430513 ) Edit: Actually, Dave, we had a few discussions over on the old CPQ thread about retaining the CPQ or all joining the existing HWP thread at the merger. The symbols change clinched it for many of us. Neither existing thread was the right place to go. Apparently the CPQ folks made a unilateral decision to start a new thread without bothering to mention it to the HWP thread. Not a very nice "let's all be friends" move. My original post to this thread was an attempt to understand why you did this, rather than join the HWP family thread. Since then, I've been told that this is a "takeunder" and have seen other statements that the merged company is really going to be a CPQ company. My response was simply that if the the CPQ employees (and other than Piotr, I have no idea if you guys are employees or not) act with this belief, then the merger will fail. Take it FWIW, Dave